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Dr. Strangegrid or: How I Learned to Stop Waiting and Write a CAE Plugin
Your plugin can be here! One of the most frequent requests we get from customers, distributors and solver vendors is to add support for some exotic new (or old) CAE file format. Unfortunately, we must...
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Printing Grids in 3D
Those of you who attended the 2011 Pointwise User Group Meeting may remember that our company president, John Chawner, mentioned during his closing statements how nice it would be to have the ability...
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Creating a CAE Plugin – Understanding the Pointwise Grid Model API (Part 1)
The main purpose of a CAE plugin is to export a grid model. To do this, the plugin must convert the grid data as represented by Pointwise into a format supported by the solver the plugin is targeting....
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Creating a CAE Plugin – Understanding The Pointwise Grid Model API (Part 2)
This post will cover the structured Pointwise grid model (PWGM). In Part 1 of Understanding The Pointwise Grid Model API, I covered the unstructured Pointwise grid model. If you have not done so...
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Plugin How-To – Obtaining Face Counts
Using the Pointwise Grid Model from within a plugin can be a little confusing. This leads to customers calling our support team with a plugin question that starts with the phrase “How do I…?“ While...
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Plugin How-To – Adding Solver Attributes
Manipulating the Pointwise Grid Model from within a CAE plugin can be a little confusing. This leads to customers contacting our Support Team with a plugin development question that starts with the...
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Plugin How-To – Porting an existing Plugin to a New SDK
Creating a Pointwise CAE plugin can be a little confusing. This leads to customers contacting our Support Team with a plugin development question that starts with the phrase “How do I…?” As always, our...
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This Is How I Glyph – Tcl Namespaces (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of posts about the Tcl namespace command. Each subsequent post will cover more complex uses of namespaces. While this topic is strictly related to Tcl only, it could help...
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This Is How I Glyph – Tcl Namespaces (Part 2)
This is the second in a series of posts about the Tcl namespace command. Each subsequent post will cover more complex uses of namespaces. While this topic is strictly related to Tcl only, it could help...
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This Is How I Glyph – Tcl Namespaces (Part 3)
This is the third in a series of posts about the Tcl namespace command. Each subsequent post will cover more complex uses of namespaces. While this topic is strictly related to Tcl only, it could help...
View ArticleThe Plugin SDK, Part 1 – Updates in Pointwise V18.1
Pointwise’s Plugin SDK now includes an API with which you can write structured and unstructured grid importers. In addition, the existing functionality for structured and unstructured export to CAE...
View ArticleThe Plugin SDK, Part 2: Unstructured Grid Import – New in Pointwise V18.1
In this second post of a four-part series you will read the details about how to use the new import API in the Pointwise Plugin SDK to write an importer for unstructured grid data. Yes, you read that...
View ArticleThe Plugin SDK, Part 3: Structured Grid Import – New in Pointwise V18.1
The Pointwise Plugin SDK was updated with the release of V18.1 to include grid import capability. This third post in a 4-part series provides details about how to write a structured grid importer....
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