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[Fabio Casado Ruiz <>]

I'm actually doing a research as to which advantage or disadvantage several 
tools and librarys have for FE Mesh generation. Any suggestions or articles 
about this subject? Are CGAL mesh generation and refinement algorithms 
optimal for FEMeshes?

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From: Christoph Weber 
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Sent: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:24:56 -0500 (CST)
Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Finite Element Analysis

oh, I didn't knew that... I worked a little with CGAL. Sorry for my rash
answer..

Am Freitag, den 18.03.2011, 09:09 +0100 schrieb Sebastien Loriot
(GeometryFactory):
> Christoph Weber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm working a similar subject. If you are just looking for a tool, I
> > would emphasize TetGen. It is open source, dokumented and focused on
> > FE-Meshes. 
> By curiosity, why do you prefer using TetGen than CGAL's Mesh_3 to
> generate FE-Meshes?
> 
> The Polyhedron demo has a plugin that allows to generate 3D meshes from
> an off file (Operations->Create a tetrahedral mesh).
> 
> S.
> 
> > 
> > regs, Christoph 
> > 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 17.03.2011, 12:53 -0500 schrieb Fabio Casado Ruiz:
> >> Hi. I'm studying several tools and libraries for mesh generation to use 
> >> in Finite element Analysis. Has anyone used CGAL for this purposes or 
> >> has any knowledge where to read about its pros and cons for this 
> >> purpose???
> >> Thanks a lot..
> >> F.
> >>
> 
> 
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