/*!
-\page padder_userguide_page Use the padder SMESH Plugin
+\page padder_userguide_page Use the SpherePadder SMESH Plugin
-# \ref S1_PADDER
-# \ref S2_PADDER
of the GNU General Public License.
Bibliography:
-- [1] J.-F.Jerier, V.Richefeu, D.Imbault, F.-V. Donzé, “Packing spherical discrete elements for large scale simulations”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 199 (2010) 1668–1676.
+- [1] J.-F.Jerier, V.Richefeu, D.Imbault, F.-V. Donze, “Packing spherical discrete elements for large scale simulations”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 199 (2010) 1668–1676.
- [2] CGAL, Computational Geometry Algorithms Library. https://gforge.inria.fr.
- [3] EUROPLEXUS: a computer program for the finite element simulation of fluid–structure systems under transient dynamic loading. http://europlexus.jrc.ec.europa.eu, (User’s Manual).
\image html padder_image12.png
Note that the final ED mesh contains as many groups as the input
-meshes. Their names have been specified in the input dialog. For the
-moment, the DE mesh is shown as a set of points of equal size:
+meshes. Their names have been specified in the input dialog.
-\image html padder_image13.png
+A new functionality has been added to SpherePadder allowing to mesh
+curved geometries. Circular objects with concave boundaries such as
+shown here:
-In the next version, the PointSprite (sphere-like) mode will be used
-to show the MED_BALL elements with their real diameters. Then the
-above example should look like on the following capture (realized in
-module GEOM for illustration):
+\image html padder_curvedgeom.png
+
+can be "padded" with spherical discrete elements. Henceforward,
+the PointSprite (sphere-like) mode is used to show the MED_BALL
+elements with their real diameters:
\image html padder_sphererendering.png
environment variable PADDERHOME that localizes the installation root
of the SpherePadder external program. This installation process
creates a configuration file padder.cfg located in the folder
-<SMESH_ROOT_DIR>/share/salome/plugins/smesh, where <SMESH_ROOT_DIR> is
+\<SMESH_ROOT_DIR\>/share/salome/plugins/smesh, where \<SMESH_ROOT_DIR\> is
the installation root directory of the SMESH module.
In the case where you have to specify a different configuration than
defaultres = local
# The following sections defines the available configurations.
-# The name of the section can be choosen arbitrary. But the value of
+# The name of the section can be chosen arbitrarily. But the value of
# the resname key MUST be the name of a SALOME resource defined in the
# catalog of resources (CatalogResources.xml).
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You can check the configuration by testing that you can connect to the
-host <hostname> with the login <username> without being asked a
+host \<hostname\> with the login \<username\> without being asked a
password:
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