Katherine S. Hedström
Institute of Marine and Coastal
Sciences
Rutgers University
A postscript version of this document is available.
Cubit is a grid generation tool for building quadrilateral 2-D grids and hexahedral 3-D grids. It is available from Sandia National Labs, but is not freely available. Check their web page for more information. The other software described in this manual is not currently on the net but could be made available if there is demand for it.
This document describes the steps in building grids using Cubit. It is
not meant to replace the manual, but to expand on the steps before and
after Cubit itself is run, as shown in figure 1. The exact
sequence of operations depends on whether the grid is an x,y grid or
a latitude, longitude grid. In either case, the grid is created in a
flat x,y coordinate system, although Cubit is capable of building
spherical grids when given its input in a more sophisticated (CAD) file
format. We use the more primitive vertex Cubit commands because they
work and because we already have experience converting from x,y to
latitude, longitude and back again.
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