[HN Gopher] Automating Complex 3D Modeling ___________________________________________________________________ Automating Complex 3D Modeling Author : sizzle Score : 38 points Date : 2020-05-01 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (share-ng.sandia.gov) (TXT) w3m dump (share-ng.sandia.gov) | chaosbutters314 wrote: | this isn't first of its kind, most/all cfd/fea packages come with | a meshing tool. And most of them are already "one-click" | solutions for a halfway decent mesh even on complex topologies | with some even doing error handling for the user. | wtallis wrote: | It looks to me like this is not automated 3D modeling. Instead | it's an improved algorithm for reducing an existing 3D model to a | mesh suitable for eg. finite element method simulations. | tonylemesmer wrote: | I agree. A process that typically requires manual intervention | and tweaking of the source CAD model to arrive at something | ready for simulation. As a design engineer maybe I'm not out of | a job just yet. | twelvechairs wrote: | More clealy: "the first provably correct algorithm for conforming | Voronoi meshing for non-convex and possibly non-manifold domains | with guarantees on the quality of both surface and volume | elements" | | https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08767 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-01 23:00 UTC)