Thanks !
I was referring to the displacement depicted below.

Hi Harry,

I'm pretty amazed by what you are able to do ! Hopefully, I'll be able someday to read your code, and understand it.

I was wondering: which boundary conditions are applied to the plate with hole ? I see some X translations on the far left edge that I did not expect.

Hi, not sure if this can be of any help, but when I need a point to be present in the generated nodes on a surface I use the Point | Curve { expression-list } In Surface { expression }; command. Maybe in this way, once the first of the two mating surfaces is meshed, GMSH can be forced to insert new ...

Thank you guys !
I'll need to inspect more closely this solver and become proficient in plain OOFem before embarking in such a project.

Hello,

I wonder if the OOFem finite element code has been evaluated for a possible support in FreeCAD: http://www.oofem.org/

For what I can see in the manual, it seems that this solver may be well suited for civil/structural engineering : http://www.oofem.org/en/manual

both R12 and latest R14 look ok on Microstation v8i SS3.

Here's my take using loft and offset.

Hi, thanks !

It's a really basic setup, I just increased the bouncing to 5, clamping is set to 30, I used the default lighting map, about 1 min baking on a GTX 750. I can post the entire setup later.

Hi,

these are some preliminary renders of parts of a 3d printer I'm designing.

Cadrays already proves to be a really valuable tool !

I don't have access to such technologies