GiD reference manual

Pre and post processing system for F.E.M. calculations.

International Center For

Numerical Methods In Engineering (CIMNE)

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• INTRODUCTION
  • Using this manual
• GiD BASICS
• INVOKING GiD
• USER INTERFACE
  • Mouse operations
  • Command line
• USER BASICS
  • Point definition
    • Picking in the graphical window
    • Entering points by coordinates
      • Local/global coordinates
      • Cylindrical coordinates
      • Spherical coordinates
    • Option Base
    • Selecting an existing point
    • Option point in line
    • Option point in surface
    • Option tangent in line
    • Option normal in surface
    • Option Arc center
    • Grid
  • Entities selection
  • Quit
  • Escape
• FILES
  • New
  • Open
  • Save
  • Save as
  • Import
    • IGES
    • DXF
    • Parasolid
    • ACIS
    • VDA
    • Rhino
    • Shapefile
    • NASTRAN mesh
    • STL mesh
    • VRML mesh
    • 3DStudio mesh
    • GiD mesh
    • Surface mesh
    • Batch file
    • Insert GiD geometry
  • Export
    • IGES
    • DXF
    • ACIS
    • GiD mesh
    • Text data report
    • ASCII project
    • ON layers
    • Calculation file
    • Using template .bas
  • Preprocess/Postprocess
  • Print to file
  • Page/image setup
  • Print
  • Recent files
  • Quit
• VIEW
  • Zoom
  • Rotate
    • Rotate trackball
    • Rotate screen axes
    • Rotate object axes
    • Rotate center
    • Rotate angle
    • Rotate points
    • Plane XY (Original)
    • Plane XZ
    • Plane YZ
  • Pan
  • Redraw
  • Render
  • Perspective
  • Clip planes
  • Label
  • Entities
  • Normals
  • Higher entities
  • Save/Read View
  • Background Image
  • Image to clipboard
  • Multiple windows
  • Mode
• GEOMETRY
  • View geometry
  • Create
    • Point creation
    • Straight line creation
    • NURBS line creation
    • Parametric line
    • Polyline creation
    • Arc creation
    • NURBS surface creation
    • Parametric surface
    • Planar surface creation
    • 4-sided surface creation
    • 4-sided surface automatic creation
    • Contact surface creation
    • Surface mesh
    • Volume creation
    • Contact volume creation
    • Object
  • Delete
  • Edit
    • Move point
    • Divide
    • Lines operations
    • Swap arc
    • Polyline
    • SurfMesh
    • Edit NURBS line/surface
    • Convert to NURBS line/surface
    • Simplify NURBS line/surface
    • Hole NURBS surface
    • Collapse
    • Uncollapse
    • Intersection
      • Intersection line-line
      • Intersection multiple lines
      • Intersection Surface 2 points
      • Intersection Surface lines
      • Intersection Surface surface
      • Intersection Multiple surfaces
    • Surface boolean operations
    • Volume boolean operations
• UTILITIES
  • Undo
  • Preferences
  • Layers
  • Tools
  • Toolbars
  • Save window configuration
  • Move screen objects
  • Coordinates window
  • Read batch window
  • Comments
  • Animate Controls
  • Macros
  • Selection window
  • Calculator
  • Report
  • Notes
  • Copy
  • Move
  • Status
  • List
  • Renumber
  • Id
  • Signal
  • Swap normals
  • Distance
  • Dimensions
  • Repair model
• DATA
  • Problem type
  • Transform problem type
  • Internet Retrieve
  • Load
  • Unload
  • Debugger
  • Conditions
    • Assign condition
    • Draw condition
    • Unassign condition
  • Materials
    • Assign material
    • Draw material
    • Unassign material
    • New material
    • Exchange material
  • Units
  • Problem data
  • Intervals
  • Interval data
  • Local axes
• MESH
  • Unstructured
  • Structured
  • Structured concentrate
  • SemiStructured
  • Quadratic
  • Element type
  • Mesh criteria
  • Reset mesh data
  • Draw
    • Draw Sizes
    • Draw Element Type
    • Draw Mesh / No mesh
    • Draw Structured Type
    • Draw Skip entities (Rjump)
  • Generate mesh
  • Erase mesh
  • Edit mesh
    • Move node
    • Split Elements
    • Smooth Elements
    • Collapse
    • Delete nodes/elements
  • Show errors
  • View mesh boundary
  • Create boundary mesh
  • Mesh quality
• CALCULATE
  • Calculate
  • Calculate remote
  • Cancel process
  • View process info
  • Calculate window
• HELP
  • Register GiD
  • Register Problem types
    • Customizing Problem type registration
  • Visit GiD web
  • About
• POSTPROCESS OPTIONS
  • Introduction
  • Files menu
  • Utilities
  • Point and Line options
  • Display Style
  • Textures
  • Cover mesh
• POSTPROCESSING RESULTS
  • Contour Fill
  • Smooth Contour Fill
  • Contour Ranges
  • Contour Lines
  • Show Minimum and Maximum
  • Display vectors
  • Iso Surfaces
  • Stream Lines
  • Line diagrams
  • Legends
  • Graphs
    • Graph Lines description
    • Graph Lines options
    • Graph Lines File Format
  • Result surface
  • Deform Mesh
  • Do Cuts
  • Animation
  • Automatic comments
  • Several results
• CUSTOMIZATION
  • Introduction
  • Configuration Files
    • XML file
      • ValidatePassword node
    • Conditions file (.cnd)
      • Example: Creating the conditions file
    • Materials file (.mat)
      • Example: Creating the materials file
    • Problem and intervals data file (.prb)
      • Example: Creating the PRB data file
    • Conditions symbols file (.sim)
      • Example: Creating the Symbols file
    • Unit System file (.uni)
    • Special fields
  • Template File
    • General description
    • Commands used in the .bas file
      • Single value return commands
      • Multiple values return commands
      • Specific commands
    • Detailed example - Template file creation
      • A) Elements, materials and connectivities listing
      • B) Formatted nodes and coordinates listing
      • C) Nodes listing declaration
      • D) Materials listing declaration
      • E) Elements listing declaration
      • F) Nodes and its conditions listing declaration
  • Executing an external program
    • Commands accepted by the GiD command.exe
    • Showing feedback when runing the solver
    • Managing errors
    • Examples
• POSTPROCESS DATA FILES
  • Postprocess mesh format: ProjectName.post.msh, ProjectName.flavia.msh
    • Mesh example
  • Postprocess results format: ProjectName.post.res, ProjectName.flavia.res
    • Gauss Points
    • Result Range Table
    • Result block
    • Result group
    • Results example
  • Re-meshing and adaptivity
  • Old postprocess results format
    • Gauss Points (Old format)
  • Old postprocess mesh format
    • Old format - File ProjectName.flavia.msh
    • Old format - File ProjectName.flavia.bon
    • Old format - File ProjectName.flavia.dat
• TCL/TK EXTENSION
  • Event procedures
  • Control functions
    • Process function
    • Info function
    • Special functions
  • Managing menus
  • HTML support
    • HelpWindow
    • GiDCustomHelp
      • Structure of the help content
      • HelpDirs
      • TocPage
      • IndexPage
  • Custom Data Windows
    • TkWidget
    • Data Windows Behaviour
  • GiD version
  • Using EXEC in GiD
  • Detailed example - Tcl/Tk extension creation

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