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Creating meshes

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The APM Preprocessor does not have built-in meshing capabilities. As a result you have to use a 3rd party meshing software capable of creating meshes in .stl format. Examples of meshing software are:

  • (free)

  • (free)

Although is not a meshing software, it has meshing capabilities and can be used to create meshes in .stl file format. For more information, refer to the .

Any meshing software capable of creating meshes in .stl file format can be used.

Gmsh
OpenVSP
ANSYS ICEM CFD
Pointwise
GridPro
OpenVSP
OpenVSP section