Happy New Year - Let's help Tochnog Grow!

[email protected] Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:08:16 -0600
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Dear Tochnogers,

As 2016 is now upon us, I am taking the opportunity to wish everyone a =
Happy New Year and to ask for your help into making Tochnog even better.

As I hope everyone knows and understands  by now, although Tochnog has =
built in meshing capabilities, to model serious cases, a proper pre and =
post processor is needed.

In this respect, GiD (http://www.gidhome.com <http://www.gidhome.com/>) =
has a nice interface for creating meshes, assigning material properties =
and boundary conditions, in addition to being excellent at =
post-processing Tochnog results. GiD=E2=80=99s only drawback is that it =
is not open source and the student version has limited element and node =
restrictions.

GMSH (http://geuz.org/gmsh/ <http://geuz.org/gmsh/>) is open source, has =
seen a lot of development, but does not offers the capability of saving =
a mesh in a format that Tochnog can understand or read the Tochnog =
results for post processing. Osman Buyukisik built AWK scripts to =
convert a GMSH mesh into Tochnog format and for converting a Tochnog =
result file into a gosh post processing file.

Ideally, what we are looking for is for building a module into gmsh that =
would allow gmsh to write a Tochnog  *.dat file and to be able to read a =
Tochnog results file for post processing.=20

Two options are possible: the first one is to build the tools/options  =
into gmsh, or to write the translators in c++ that will read the gmsh =
mesh and will convert that into Tochnog format and do the same with the =
post processing file.

Roman Putanowicz has started working in this process, but any help or =
input from other fellow users will be greatly appreciated.

If we are able to build these options we can ensure that Tochnog will =
continue to exists and will grow as the great tool it is.

Thanks everyone and Happy New Year.



FERNANDO LORENZO
[email protected]




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class=3D"">Dear Tochnogers,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">As 2016 is now upon us, I am taking the opportunity to wish =
everyone a Happy New Year and to ask for your help into making Tochnog =
even better.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">As =
I hope everyone knows and understands &nbsp;by now, although Tochnog has =
built in meshing capabilities, to model serious cases, a proper pre and =
post processor is needed.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">In this respect, GiD (<a href=3D"http://www.gidhome.com" =
class=3D"">http://www.gidhome.com</a>) has a nice interface for creating =
meshes, assigning material properties and boundary conditions, in =
addition to being excellent at post-processing Tochnog results. GiD=E2=80=99=
s only drawback is that it is not open source and the student version =
has limited element and node restrictions.</div><div class=3D""><br =
class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">GMSH (<a href=3D"http://geuz.org/gmsh/" =
class=3D"">http://geuz.org/gmsh/</a>) is open source, has seen a lot of =
development, but does not offers the capability of saving a mesh in a =
format that Tochnog can understand or read the Tochnog results for post =
processing. Osman Buyukisik built AWK scripts to convert a GMSH mesh =
into Tochnog format and for converting a Tochnog result file into a gosh =
post processing file.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">Ideally, what we are looking for is for building a module =
into gmsh that would allow gmsh to write a Tochnog &nbsp;*.dat file and =
to be able to read a Tochnog results file for post =
processing.&nbsp;</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">Two options are possible: the first one is to build the =
tools/options &nbsp;into gmsh, or to write the translators in c++ that =
will read the gmsh mesh and will convert that into Tochnog format and do =
the same with the post processing file.</div><div class=3D""><br =
class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Roman Putanowicz has started working in =
this process, but any help or input from other fellow users will be =
greatly appreciated.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">If we are able to build these options we can ensure that =
Tochnog will continue to exists and will grow as the great tool it =
is.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Thanks =
everyone and Happy New Year.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><br=
 class=3D""><br class=3D""><div class=3D"">
<div class=3D"">FERNANDO LORENZO</div><div class=3D""><a =
href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" =
class=3D"">[email protected]</a></div><div class=3D""><br =
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