From Solidworks to Wamit

Discussion in 'Software' started by mlaranjinha, Sep 14, 2007.

  1. mlaranjinha
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    mlaranjinha Junior Member

    Anyone knows a simple (or more complex) way to get Wamit type geometry files from Solidworks?

    Thx for the help
    ML
     
  2. Steve Baer
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    Steve Baer Rhino Developer

    Rhino 4 has a WAMIT file exporter. You could get your SolidWorks geometry into Rhino 4 and then save to WAMIT.

    Thanks,
    -Steve
     
  3. mlaranjinha
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    mlaranjinha Junior Member

    Hey Steve,

    Thanks for the answer. I have read on the forum that Rhino has a pretty knit module for Naval Architecture stuff. Problem is we don't have license for Rhino.

    Next week I'll try Ansys or Stacs both FEM software.

    Thanks anyway

    ML
     
  4. Steve Baer
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    Steve Baer Rhino Developer

    I'm not sure what you mean by a "knit module" but you could always download and use the evaluation version of Rhino 4. It will let you save 25 times before the evaluation runs out. This way you could see if the Solidworks->Rhino->Wamit file transfer works for you.

    Thanks,
    -Steve
     
  5. mlaranjinha
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    mlaranjinha Junior Member

    Ok,

    Thanks for the help...

    ML

    PS: "knit module" = "nice interface or software add-on or something else probably..?"
     

  6. mlaranjinha
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    mlaranjinha Junior Member

    Got It

    GOT IT...

    From WAMIT -> ANSYS -> IGES -> SOLIDWORKS -> IGES -> ANSYS -> WAMIT

    M
     
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