Why Choose Griddle?

POWERFUL

Generate meshes for both continuum and discrete element models
Integrated within Rhinoceros 3D, a powerful CAD program for creating and modifying surfaces, solids, and meshes
Produce different types of volume meshes to fit your goals:
- Structured hexahedral meshes for accurate stress calculations
- Unstructured tetrahedral meshes when working with the most complex geometries and generating 3DEC bonded-block-models (BBM)
- Unstructured Hex-dominant meshes as a hybrid approach to maximize the volume fraction of hexahedral elements
Preserve surface mesh overall shapes and properties through the process of mesh intersection and remeshing
Built-in Rhino 3D mesh repair tools and new Griddle automated mesh repair functionality
Named Rhino 3D objects are included in the FLAC3D or 3DEC grid files as groups, making it easy to reference joints, faults, and other geotechnical domains in Itasca’s software
Control local mesh resolution for surface meshes by specifying local mesh size, hard edges or hard nodes
Control the gradation of element sizes (e.g., from small to big) in surface and volume meshes
Extract, extend and/or extrude surface meshes using Griddle tools to quickly and efficiently prepare surface meshes for remeshing and volume meshing with desired parameters
Customize, parameterize, and fully automate Rhino and Griddle using powerful macros, Visual Basic, and Python scripting
Export meshes to non-Itasca, Finite Element software formats

Now able to export FLAC3D 7 and 3DEC 7 as binary grid files for smaller size and faster loading
Create 3DEC 7 meshes either using Rigid or Deformable blocks format
Faster and more robust surface and volume meshing engines
Preserve initial surface/polysurface/mesh information and automatically transfer names of Rhino objects as groups in FLAC3D and 3DEC
Efficiently prepare surface meshes and fix issues using GHeal, GExtract, GExtend and/or GExtrude

Easily create high quality meshes in various formats
Automatically check for possible meshing issues before volume meshing
Volume mesher GVol highlights problematic areas that may require additional clean-up or fixing
Griddle generates element reports defining the types and fractions of elements
Griddle now has automated mesh repair tools with powerful features exceeding Rhino capabilities
Griddle’s surface mesh intersector (GInt) ensures conformal meshes across the geometry

Since being commercially released in 2015, Griddle has been used by Itasca engineers and scientists in their work often when dealing with the most complex geometries and structures
Used worldwide by a wide variety of industries, universities, and government agencies

Multiple types of surface remeshing and volume meshing elements (tetrahedral, hexahedral, and hex-dominant)
Rhino 3D has a large number of points, lines/curves, surface, solid, and mesh drafting tools that are easy to use
Customize, parameterize, and automate Rhino and Griddle using powerful macros, Visual Basic, and Python scripting
Rhino 3D imports/exports a large variety of CAD file formats
Optional FLAC3D 7 and 3DEC 7 ASCII format for grid files making it easier to modify or customize grid files
Standard license is portable between computers and users
Multiple seat network licenses available
Monthly and annual leases available