About WireGrid

WireGrid for Windows is a pre-processor for the thin wire moment method code called NEC. Although NEC allows the use of surface patches it uses the magnetic field integral equation — thus requiring closed surface structures when using surface patches. It is often required to model an open structure, for example the body of a car with non-conducting windows. Such surfaces are usually modelled by constructing a wire mesh on the conducting surfaces.

This code automates the discretisation of these conducting surfaces in terms of wire meshes for analysis in NEC and allows visual feedback of the model structure as well as the positions of sources, networks and field points. It also does some checking regarding duplicate wires and closely spaced nodes — not making contact.