There are a number of data translators included with CalculiX for Windows. The standard
version includes the VDA and ACIS to FBD. These and the others are included in the
extended version of CalculiX for Windows.
If there is a CAD or CAE I/O data format that is not currently supported or not supported
sufficiently for your project please submit a feature request to info@bConverged.com.
This translator expands an ABAQUS input deck to remove some of the cards that are not
supported by CalculiX's solver CCX. The resultant input deck is still valid Abaqus input.
Entities translated to CCX INP:
All syntax that CCX and Abaqus share is transferred verbatim during the
translation except *INCLUDE. To simplify the translation process, the contents of the included
files are all contained in the resultant translation.
*BOUNDARY (expand the type formats: XSYMM, YSYMM, ZSYMM, ENCASTRE, PINNED,
XASYMM, YASYMM and ZASYMM)
*ELGEN
*NFILL (bias and singular not yet implemented)
*NGEN (cylindrical and spherical systems and parabolic generation not yet
implemented)
*NSET, ELSET
*PARAMETER
This translator also translates the mesh from an ABAQUS or CCX input deck to the GMSH format.
Entities translated to GMSH MSH (ASCII 2.0):
*ELEMENT
*ELGEN
*ELSET
*INCLUDE
*NFILL (bias and singular not yet implemented)
*NGEN (cylindrical and spherical systems and parabolic generation not yet
implemented)
*NODE
*NSET
*NSET, ELSET
*NSET, GENERATE
*NSET, UNSORTED
*PARAMETER
GMSH MSH (ASCII 2.0):
This translator converts the ASCII version 2.0 GMSH mesh file to the format used by
ABAQUS and CCX.
All nodes, elements and sets (based on tags) are translated to CCX and ABAQUS INP.
Extended version - CAD geometry
IGES:
Supports IGES versions up to and including version 5.3
Supports ACIS version 4 (version 7 will be available in the next release of the ACIS translator)
The Perl script was written by Roland Felde. A C++ implementation is shipped with CalculiX for
Windows to remove the Perl dependency. This was written by Convergent Mechanical
Solutions and supports the same entities.