Meshes

HI-Mach operates on unstructured meshes and can read in several different formats. HI-Mach can only handle triangular panels. Mesh files containing higher-order polygons will be rejected.

Allowable Mesh Types

HI-Mach is able to read in ASCII .vtk, .tri, and .stl files in addition to binary .stl files. HI-Mach cannot read in binary .vtk and .tri files.

The following mesh types may be given to HI-Mach:

• VTK (versions 3, 4, and 5) Certain types of .vtk files define multiple points per line in the POINTS section. HI-Mach does not detect this, and so such mesh files are not allowed. The .vtk file should have only one point defined per line.
• STL
• .tri