GiD forum

Dear All,

For the code we develop we would like make exporter to GiD. I have started to look at GiD format description, but I am sure this problem was already tackled several times. Maybe there are some libraries to aid in writing GID exportes. While keeping searching Internet I would like to kindly ask you for some hints or references.

With kind regards,

Roman Putanowicz

We don't provide any library to write GiD geometry files.
We only provide the 'gidpost' library, to write mesh and results for postprocess.

About GiD geometry format, there is a short documentation of the ASCII format in the 'GiD customization manual'->Preprocess data files

Instead of write GiD .geo files you can also implement the import/export of other formats with Tcl scripting language.
For example you can inspect the Tcl code of
<gid>\plugins\Import\Calculix\Calculix.tcl

It implements the feature showed by the menu Files->Import->Calculix... in preprocess that read the .frd CALCULIX geometry files and create GiD geometry using Tcl commands like GiD_Geometry, GiD_Info, GiD_Process, and others

The plugin also implements in postprocess Files->Import->Calculix... the import of CALCULIX .fbd results file.

NOTE: Calculix is a FEM structural solver that uses as input Abaqus-like syntax (http://www.calculix.de)