Idea for FEA using Grasshopper and Open Source Tools

I've been learning NetGen (an open source mesh generator) and NgSolve (finite element libraries closely linked to Netgen).There is still a lot to cover, I've just started. So far I've gotten them to work in a VC++ project. Well, ngsolve is acting weird, spewing out garbage characters on screen. But at leats it doesn't crash :)

Anyway, I got an idea.

Both Netgen and NGSolve can be compiled as libraries. A DLL wrapper can be created which could be called from a GrassHopper programming module (.NET)

In Grasshopper, the geometry would be generated as a triangulation which would be fed to Netgen to generate a volumetric mesh.

Boundary conditions would be defined in GH and written as a text file. NgSolve would access the geometry or the mesh, the boundary conditions and the PDEs to solve.

The results could be fed back into GH as colored triangles and a stress legend somehow would be created...no idea about that part. Like I said, I didn't get too far. But I think it would be a neat idea to have a completely free FEM solver for GH.

Best regards

Mihai Pruna