Software Products

POWERFUL

• Generate meshes for both continuum and discrete element models
• Integrated within Rhinoceros 3D, a powerful CAD program for creating and modifying surfaces, solids, and meshes
• Produce different types of volume meshes to fit your goals:
  • Structured hexahedral meshes for accurate stress calculations
  • Unstructured tetrahedral meshes when working with the most complex geometries and generating 3DEC bonded-block-models (BBM)
  • Unstructured Hex-dominant meshes as a hybrid approach to maximize the volume fraction of hexahedral elements
• Preserve surface mesh overall shapes and properties through the process of mesh intersection and remeshing
• Built-in Rhino 3D mesh repair tools and new Griddle automated mesh repair functionality
• Named Rhino 3D objects are included in the FLAC3D or 3DEC grid files as groups, making it easy to reference joints, faults, and other geotechnical domains in Itasca’s software
• Control local mesh resolution for surface meshes by specifying local mesh size, hard edges or hard nodes
• Control the gradation of element sizes (e.g., from small to big) in surface and volume meshes
• Extract, extend and/or extrude surface meshes using Griddle tools to quickly and efficiently prepare surface meshes for remeshing and volume meshing with desired parameters
• Customize, parameterize, and fully automate Rhino and Griddle using powerful macros, Visual Basic, and Python scripting
• Export meshes to non-Itasca, Finite Element software formats

EFFICIENT

• Now able to export FLAC3D 7 and 3DEC 7 as binary grid files for smaller sizes and faster loading.
• Create 3DEC 7 meshes either using Rigid or Deformable block format.
• Faster and more robust surface and volume meshing engines.
• Preserve initial surface/polysurface/mesh information and automatically transfer names of Rhino objects as groups in FLAC3D and 3DEC.
• Efficiently prepare surface meshes and fix issues using GHeal, GExtract, GExtend, and/or GExtrude.

RELIABLE

• Easily create high-quality meshes in various formats.
• Automatically check for possible meshing issues before volume meshing.
• Volume mesher GVol highlights problematic areas that may require additional clean-up or fixing.
• Griddle generates element reports defining the types and fractions of elements.
• Griddle now has automated mesh repair tools with powerful features exceeding Rhino capabilities.
• Griddle’s surface mesh intersector (GInt) ensures conformal meshes across the geometry.

PROVEN

• Since being commercially released in 2015, Griddle has been used by Itasca engineers and scientists in their work often when dealing with the most complex geometries and structures.
• Used worldwide by a wide variety of industries, universities, and government agencies.

FLEXIBLE

• Multiple types of surface remeshing and volume meshing elements (tetrahedral, hexahedral, and hex-dominant).
• Rhino 3D has a large number of point, line/curve, surface, solid, and mesh drafting tools that are easy to use.
• Customize, parameterize, and automate Rhino and Griddle using powerful macros, Visual Basic, and Python scripting.
• Rhino 3D imports/exports a large variety of CAD file formats.
• Optional FLAC3D 7 and 3DEC 7 ASCII format for grid files, making it easier to modify or customize grid files.
• Standard license is portable between computers and users.
• Multiple seat network licenses available.
• Monthly and annual leases available.

ECONOMICAL

• No annual maintenance fees.
• Standard license is portable between computers and users.
• Monthly and annual leases are available.