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3D Geotechnical geometry design
BUILD3D is a revolutionary software tool for constructing 3D analysis-ready geometries.
Its powerful feature-based design allows for quick construction of 3D geotechnical models with complex topography or geology, sweeping tunnels or rivers, and 3D geometry from CAD files.
Key Features
Seamless Integration
GeoStudio’s 3D analysis products include basic 3D construction tools. Users can easily add the full-featured BUILD3D to unlock several additional tools enabling unlimited geometry creation. BUILD3D can be added and used with any existing 3D analysis product license.
Feature-Based Design
BUILD3D is a feature based geometry creation tool that allows modifications of a model at any point in the Design History. Changes are quickly and automatically cascaded through the entire model geometry, providing huge time-savings.
Powerful Operations
A suite of powerful Boolean operations are available in BUILD3D, including intersect, cut, merge, and imprint. These operations provide the necessary tools for creating 3D geometries from scratch or modifying geometries imported from STEP files.
Mesh Generation
Generate the finite element mesh throughout the 3D domain with the click of a button. BUILD3D automatically produces a clean mesh, removing the need to spend hours on manual mesh adjustments, and material and boundary condition assignments.
BUILD3D provides the tools to create any geometry.
Dams and Levees
Import complex surface topography or stratigraphic boundaries from CAD files and use the imported surfaces to generate regions. Import the dam geometry or use the plane and sketch tools to generate a dam in BUILD3D. Use the Sweep feature to sweep a levee cross-section along a natural river path.
Roads, Bridges, and Embankments
Use the plane and sketch features in BUILD3D to generate road and embankment geometries, or import these from CAD files. Sweep a road and embankment cross-section along a defined path.
Open Pit Mines
Import pit shell surfaces and geological formations from CAD files. Use the cut features to remove material in the pit, and set up multiple analyses to model pit excavation. These analyses can be used to assess groundwater seepage and stability over time.
Underground Excavations
Use the Sweep tool to generate a body representing a tunnel cutting through soil or rock regions. Use the cut operations to remove material from the tunnel. Include multiple geometries in a single project file representing tunnel construction over time.
3D Model Building Basics
BUILD3D provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating three-dimensional geometries. This example demonstrates the basic tools for getting started in BUILD3D, including the sketch and extrude features.
Implicit and Explicit Boolean Operations
Boolean operations are used when objects intersect one another. This example illustrates the implicit Boolean operations present in BUILD3D and the explicit cutting functionality available.
Construction Planes and Imprinting
This examples demonstrates how to create geometry using the non-default construction planes and how to assign boundary conditions to a portion of a face using the imprinting operation.
Sweeping Tunnels and Imported Ground Surfaces
BUILD3D provides importing capabilities for CAD files. This examples illustrates how to import a CAD-generated STEP file to define the ground surface. A tunnel along a non-linear path is added to the domain to demonstrate the sweep functionality in BUILD3D.
BUILD3D comprehensive feature set
- Feature-based geometry creation offers significant time-savings
- NURBS-based geometry for greater flexibility and precision
- Import 2D GeoStudio analyses with materials and boundary conditions
- Import bodies (SETP/STP, IGES), profiles (STP, IGES) or background mesh (STL, DWG/DXF)
- Intuitive sketch tools including sketch, plane, sweep, extrude
- Easy Boolean operations: intersect, cut, merge and imprint
- Materials, boundary conditions applied to geometry objects
- Clean mesh generation with tetrahedral or hexahedral mesh
- Large model support
- Powerful results visualization including contours and isosurfaces
- Export surface mesh, body or results from selected nodes or surfaces
Additional Information
| SKU | build3d |
|---|---|
| Status | Enabled |
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