Dan / Lawerence,
Dan Davis wrote->
>>I am looking for a graphics file I can use for a
>>presentation. Ideally, it would be able to be dynamically rotated, so
>>maybe
>>a VRML or similar. Who would be an expert on this?
Lawerence Blasch wrote->
>>If you could output the VRML
>>file in such a way to show how the results change through the load range,
>>and let you freely rotate the model, then that would be tremendous
In VRML 2.0 model color is applied per/vertex much the same way as
OpenGL primitives. This of course allows real time manipulation with
multiple colors on your model that is much faster than say texture mapping.
Even though this standard has been around since 1997 I believe there are
only two or three viewers that support full VRML 2.0 including the colors.
I'm not sure how many other software vendors are taking advantage of this
but the standards are in place.
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>>Dan,
>>I work with ANSYS, and it will let you output VRML, tif, jpeg, bmp, and a
>>few other formats.
>>VRML is the best choice for a dynamic presentation unless you just want to
>>play back a static slide show. If that's what you are looking for than
>>just
>>do the model rotation in the FEA package and save the images in jpeg or
>>tif
>>format and build a slide show in PowerPoint or something similar.
>>Remember, the VRML file will only contain one fringe display so although
>>it
>>may be useful for max/min representations, it won't show
>>load/stress/strain
>>changes throughout the ranges that you set. If you could output the VRML
>>file in such a way to show how the results change through the load range,
>>and let you freely rotate the model, then that would be tremendous.
>>Lawrence R. Blasch
>>Design Engineer
>>>>CAE Systems Administrator
>>OPW Fueling Components
>>P.O. Box 405003
>>Cincinnati, OH 45240-5003 USA
>>Voice: (513) 870-3356
>>Fax: (513) 870-3338
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dan Davis [mailto:ddavis@theamericanteam.com]
>>Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 1:32 PM
>>To: RP-ML Posting (E-mail)
>>Subject: CAE output file
>>>>Hello all,
>>To you users of CAE tools (e.g., ANSYS, NASTRAN, PATRAN, Pro/Mechanica,
>>etc.), do these packages output files? I am looking for a graphical
>>output
>>of the colored stress/thermal/etc model. If there is an output option, in
>>what format is it? I am looking for a graphics file I can use for a
>>presentation. Ideally, it would be able to be dynamically rotated, so
maybe
>>a VRML or similar. Who would be an expert on this?
>>Thanks in advance.
>>Regards,
>>Dan Davis
>>For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
>>For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
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