Hi Christophe, * On 20 Jul 2008 * Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a small problem, when importing an igs (exported by >> ICEM) geometry. Actually the import works well, >> but as soon as I save it as a geo file, I get a lot more >> points then in the igs file. I attach to snapshots. Do I >> do anything wrong? > > Not really: the geo export is pretty much there for debugging purposes > only. The reason you get more points is probably that the straight lines > in the iges files are represented e.g. by splines instead of line > segments. > > Our goal is to mesh iges/step files directly, without converting them > into geo format first... Did not know that; sounds nice. > >> The view is an extraction of a simple diffuser, which I >> want to mesh with hexa elements. >> > > ...but indeed, for this you would have to convert the iges file into geo > format, since we haven't (yet) interfaced the structured meshing commands > with general CAD files. Sounds even better. > > Why is having more control points a problem? It is actually not a problem, but the geo file gets completely messy and I am not able to do the definition of the mesh by hand!? Thanks! Fabian -- _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
