GID - The personal pre and post processor

GiD has been designed as a universal, adaptive and user-friendly graphical user interface for geometrical modelling, data input and visualisation of results for all types of numerical simulation programs. Typical problems that can be successfully tackled with GiD include most situations in solid and structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, heat transfer, geomechanics, etc. using finite element, finite volume, boundary element, finite difference or point based (meshless) numerical procedures.

GiD is ideal to be used in a multi-user environment in universities, research centers and enterprises for development and applications of different numerical simulation programs.

Geometry description		Preparation of analysis data			Visualization of results
				Computer analysis

Universal: GiD is ideal for generating all the information (structured and unstructured meshes, boundary and loading conditions, material types, visualisation of results, etc.) required for the analysis of any problem in science and engineering using numerical methods.

Adaptive: GiD is extremely easy to adapt to any numerical simulation code. In fact, GiD can be defined by the user to read and write data in an unlimited number of formats. GiD´s input and output formats can be customised and made compatible with any existing in-house software. The different menus for data input and results visualisation can be tailored to the specific needs and desires of the user.

User-friendly: The development of GiD has been focused on the needs of the user and on the simplicity, speed, effectiveness and accuracy the user demands at input data preparation and results visualisation levels.

Who needs GiD?

Engineering companies wanting to unify their input data and results visualization environment for a variety of numerical simulation codes.

Universities and R+D centers wishing to provide a multi-user environment for pre/post processing allowing the development and applications of a diversity of software in computational science and engineering.

Engineers and scientists wanting to have individual access to a powerful pre and post processing system for research and applications of numerical simulation codes in either UNIX workstations or the simplest PC computer environment.

The Characteristics of GiD

• Fast and easy understandable, intuitive user interface
• Geometry import through IGES, DXF, VDA, PARASOLID
• Easy model manipulation with thousands of surface types
• Triangular, quadratic, tetrahedronal and hexahedronal mesh generation with ability to generate more then one million elements on a standard PC
• Boundary conditions, materials and other data integrated the way, that they can be defined directly in the geometry
• Post-processing optimized for large dimensional models (hundreds of thousands or millions of elements) with number of display techniques

GiD is developed by Compass IS. SmartCAE is the official reseller of GiD in Italy.