How to export domain from paraview to ANSYS or any meshing software?

Hello Vidyadhar,

If you have already had a CAD model, you should simply use ParaView just to make an iso-surface and export it to a STL file. That is, an iso-surface would be extracted using the Contour filter as shown in the attached state file and afterwards you need to go to File > Save Data… for saving this iso-surface geometry as a STL file.
iso_surface.7z (1.7 MB)

Then in ICME CFD, you can merge your CAD model and the above STL file and also easily generate a mesh with the intersections between them. See the attached movie.

This is the quickest way I’ve found so far.

  1. The problem that you mentioned is caused by rounding error. Therefore, the x, y, z coordinates should be written to Nastran file in exponent form within programmable filter. See the above attached state file.
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