HELP! with FEA conversion

[sculptingman]

Hey y'all..
I am trying to generate a model of a very complex structure for import into a Finite Element Analysis system... at present, Freeform is the Only tool I have found that can even come close to accurately modeling the network of connections involved.

Does anyone out there have the slightest Idea how I can get this curves based mesh from an IGES file, converted into the kind of geometry that an FEA system is going to be able to import?

The IGES curves are all drawn as 2 point line segments, and the model imports into Solidworks clean... but I don't know solidworks well enough to know if it can convert IGES data into polygonal...

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.


christopher

[CptHowdy]

Don't really know how Solidworks works, I'm using LS-PrePost (LS-Dyna as solver) where I can import a STL-File that I exported from Freeform. What have you tried so far?