Introduction
These courses are prepared to be followed using the version 15.0 of GiD.
They are divided in GiD basic courses and GiD advanced courses. We strongly recommend to make the GiD basic courses before the advanced ones.
Installing GiD
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- Official versions of GiD are stable versions of the program. They don't include the newest capabilities but they have passed all the validation tests.
- Developer versions of GiD are more modern versions of the program that have new capabilities. They have not passed the validation tests that a official version does. So, use them with care. Only download and install one of these versions if you know of a new capability very important for your needs or if you want to try the new improvements in the program.
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Registering GiD
GiD can work with no licence (unregistered), but in this way the user can only manage a model with a few number of nodes (around 10,000) and surfaces.
In case you want to try using a mesh with a higher number of nodes, a free password for one month can be downloaded from the web site (or a permanent one buying a licence)
- Password for GiD: http://www.gidhome.com/pricing/passwords
Installing Problemtypes
Following GiD terminology, a 'problem type' is a calculation module able to perform a simulation and which customizes GiD so as the user can apply to the model the material properties, boundary conditions and other information needed for the simulation process.
After the GiD installation process, it is needed to add the required 'problem types'. To do it, usually is only needed to copy the problemtype folder inside the /problemtypes gid folder.
It is possible to manually copy these problemtypes or dowload them from Internet.
- If you have internet connection, start GiD and go to menu: Data->Problem type->Internet retrieve. A window with the available problem type modules will appear, splitted in the different operating systems and platforms.
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Material location
The PDF documents and most of the models of the basic and advanced courses can be found at ftp://www.gidhome.com/pub/GiD_Convention/2018, inside the corresponding folders.