ABOUT Griddle Griddle is a fully interactive, general-purpose mesh generation plug-in for the Rhinoceros 5.0 3D CAD software. Griddle can be used to remesh Rhino surface meshes to comply with precise size specifications and type (triangle or quad-dominant). Surface meshes can then be used as boundaries for Griddle’s volume mesher, which produces high-quality tetrahedral or hex-dominant meshes. The volume meshes are ready for import into most engineering analysis packages, including FLAC3D and 3DEC. FEATURES RHINOCEROS 5.0 PLUG-IN • Griddle extends, while leveraging, the power of Rhino software • Rhino (sold separately*) can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate curves, surfaces, solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes • Built-in Mesh Repair Wizard to ensure good-quality meshes for volume meshing • Affordable, requiring standard hardware, short learning curve, low purchase price with no maintenance fees • Compatible with most design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software • Powerful, accurate, and free-form • Customize, parameterize, and automate Rhino and Griddle using powerful Visual Basic and Python scripting GRIDDLE SURFACE MESH INTERSECTOR • Creates a conformal (node-to-node) triangular mesh from any number of selected, intersecting meshes • Requires only a single tolerance input GRIDDLE SURFACE REMESHER • Remesh any Rhino mesh • Output meshes can be triangle, quad- dominant (triangles and quadrilaterals), or all quadrilaterals • Specify the minimum and maximum edge lengths as well as the ridge angle which controls the level of mesh detail • Automatically delete or retain your original mesh • Additional edge size controls include local mesh size overrides • Specify hard edges that will be preserved in a mesh during the remeshing process www.itascacg.com/griddle *Griddle requires Rhinoceros 5.0 software. Itasca is an authorized OEM reseller of Rhino. Brand new, powerful, easy-to-use meshing software for complex simulations. Model generation has never been easier! Griddle can handle the most complex geometries with multiple volumes and surfaces, including floating surfaces Griddle can capture the finest details, such as this pinched out geological unit Griddle-generated hexahedral-dominant FLAC3D model with nine intersecting faults modeled using interfaces Joints in a tetrahedral block 3DEC model J U S T R E L E A S E D J U S T R E L EA S E D