Cubit 13.1
Cubit is a CAD-based toolkit used to generate finite element meshes. While its main focus is large hex meshes for complex, interlocking assemblies, Cubit also produces high-quality tet meshes.
Cubit imports several geometry formats including SAT, STEP, and IGES. Cubit's geometry tools make cleaning up and decomposing imported models easy and ready for meshing. Cubit's ITEM wizard helps find problem areas and suggests solutions for creating a better mesh.
Cubit has several mesh generation algorithms that produce high quality elements. Cubit will generate hex, tet, quad and tri elements depending on the selected algorithm. Cubit allows you to assign boundary conditions to the generated mesh. When you are done generating the mesh, choose from several output formats, including Exodus II, Abaqus, Fluent, Nastran, LS-Dyna, and Patran.
Cubit's cross-platform GUI makes it easy to access all its features. Cubit can also be used in a command/script driven mode.
ParaView
ParaView 3.12.0 is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application available from Kitware, Inc. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities.
ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of terascale as well as on laptops for smaller data.
ParaView uses Kitware's Visualization Toolkit (VTK) to process and render data. The user interface is written in C++ using Nokia's Qt framwork.
Learn more about Kitware ParaView
Learn more about the Kitware Visualization Toolkit or Nokia Qt.
Cubit Adaptive Meshing Algorithm Library (CAMAL)
CAMAL 5.3.1 is a C++ library that contains many of the core meshing algorithms from Cubit. Included algorithms include:
- Edge Meshing
- Triangle Surface Meshing (Tri-advance, Delaunay)
- Quad Surface Meshing (Paving, Mapping, Sub-mapping)
- Tet Volume Meshing (Distene - TetMesh-GHS3D)
- Hex Volume Meshing (Sweeping, Mapping)
Most companies that want to integrate our meshing tools into their solution integrate Cubit. However, CAMAL might be right for companies who want to integrate only the core meshing algorithms into their software. To know if CAMAL is right for your development project, please reveiw the CAMAL documentation.