Gridgen
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Gridgen is a commercial mesh generator developed, distributed, and supported by Pointwise, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Development of Gridgen began in 1984 and commercialization began in 1994.
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Supported Mesh Types
- Structured (mapped quad and hex)
- Unstructured (Delaunay tri and tet)
- Hybrid (prism-tet, hex-pyramid-tet, etc.)
Geometry Modeling
Geometry import formats include the following.
- IGES
- STEP
- Pro/E
- CATIA V4 and V5
- UG
- STL
Geometry export includes the following formats.
- IGES
- Gridgen Native
Geometry that can be created in Gridgen includes the following entity types.
- solid model
- quilt
- trimmed surface
- Coon's patch
- polyconic surface
- surface of revolution
- sweep surface
- ruled surface
- circle
- conic
- curve (Catmull-Rom and Akima)
- line
- point
- note
CFD Solver Interfaces
Gridgen can export meshes and boundary conditions in the following native formats.
- ADPAC
- CFDSHIP-IOWA
- CFD++
- CFX-4 and CFX-5
- CGNS
- CNSFV
- COBALT
- COMO
- CRUNCH
- DTNS
- EXODUS II
- FALCON
- FANS
- FDNS/UNIC
- FLUENT V4 and FLUENT
- GASP
- GUST
- INCA V2 and V3
- NCC
- NPARC
- NSAERO
- OVERFLOW
- PHOENICS
- SCRYU and SCRYU/Tetra
- Splitflow
- STAR-CCM+
- STAR-CD
- TACOMA
- TASCflow
- TEAM
- TETREX
- VSAERO and VSAEROhybrid
- WIND and WIND-US
Grid files (without boundary conditions) may also be written in the following formats.
- PLOT3D
- PATRAN
- NASTRAN
- UCD
- VRML 1.0
- STL
- XPATCH
- IGES
Hardware Support
Gridgen runs on the following platforms.
- Windows on Intel and AMD
- Linux on Intel and AMD)
- Mac
- HP/Compaq/DEC Tru64 Unix
- HP-UX 11.11 on PA-RISC
- HP-UX 11.23 on Itanium
- IBM AIX
- SGI IRIX
- Sun Solaris
Scripting
Gridgen has a Tcl-based scripting language called GridgenGlyph that can automate CFD meshing.
