CATIA > PATRAN, FLUENT

Oliver Bennett

CATIA > PATRAN, FLUENT
Hi everyone, my work involves switching data between different programs. I was just wondering the most efficient way of moving a part file from CATIA into PATRAN and FLUENT to create a mesh for analysis. Any help or information is appreciated. Do people make their own custom programs for doing this? How do they work? My thinking is create the part in CATIA....mesh it... export the nodes to excel... import the points from excel into the other programs (somehow?) and use the points as nodes. Would that work? how would I go about it? Regards Oliver