Preprocessor that is most simialr to Gambit.

nvarma · August 9, 2017, 16:24

Hi guys,
I am curious if there are any preprocessors today which are very much like gambit. The major reason having the functionality to move the mesh around and the overall flexibility and control we have. Especially, easily manually sweeping 2-D meshes into 3-D. I have only tried workbench (and for a considerable time) and found it to be lacking in several arenas.

I am curious if there are any meshers which offer the functionality of gambit. (pointwise, ICEM- i know the old ICEM was time consuming too not sure about newer versions, or ANSA?)

Thanks.

LuckyTran · August 10, 2017, 12:04

If we are talking about hexahedral grids:

ICEM has my #1 vote for most similar to Gambit.

Try GridPro. It is more automated (because that is their selling point) and does not give you full manual control. GridPro doesn't do tets. They have added tools for mesh extrusion in v6 because it was a highly requested feature.

Pointwise would have been my third choice, but I have not used it in almost a decade to know where it is at now.

sbaffini · August 10, 2017, 12:41

I tought it was this one:

http://www.csimsoft.com/trelis-cfd

They (GAMBIT and Trelis) are both branched from the same root, CUBIT (according to http://www.csimsoft.com/about.jsp).

nvarma · August 10, 2017, 17:13

Okay.

Even the latest version of workbench is buggy and generally useless for complex CFD calcs. Creating mesh is another solution process rather than "pre-processing".

I will check out both of your suggestions.

August 10, 2017, 17:13		#4
nvarma Senior Member nm Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 100 Rep Power: 13	Okay. Even the latest version of workbench is buggy and generally useless for complex CFD calcs. Creating mesh is another solution process rather than "pre-processing". I will check out both of your suggestions. lcarasik likes this.

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August 9, 2017, 16:24	Preprocessor that is most simialr to Gambit.	#1
nvarma Senior Member nm Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 100 Rep Power: 13	Hi guys, I am curious if there are any preprocessors today which are very much like gambit. The major reason having the functionality to move the mesh around and the overall flexibility and control we have. Especially, easily manually sweeping 2-D meshes into 3-D. I have only tried workbench (and for a considerable time) and found it to be lacking in several arenas. I am curious if there are any meshers which offer the functionality of gambit. (pointwise, ICEM- i know the old ICEM was time consuming too not sure about newer versions, or ANSA?) Thanks.

August 10, 2017, 12:04		#2
LuckyTran Senior Member Lucky Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Orlando, FL USA Posts: 5,754 Rep Power: 66	If we are talking about hexahedral grids: ICEM has my #1 vote for most similar to Gambit. Try GridPro. It is more automated (because that is their selling point) and does not give you full manual control. GridPro doesn't do tets. They have added tools for mesh extrusion in v6 because it was a highly requested feature. Pointwise would have been my third choice, but I have not used it in almost a decade to know where it is at now.

August 10, 2017, 12:41		#3
sbaffini Senior Member Paolo Lampitella Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Italy Posts: 2,192 Blog Entries: 29 Rep Power: 39	I tought it was this one: http://www.csimsoft.com/trelis-cfd They (GAMBIT and Trelis) are both branched from the same root, CUBIT (according to http://www.csimsoft.com/about.jsp).