Hi Jean-Francois, >>> I see no problem here to generate 2nd order elements. Yet, I cannot see >> Are you telling me that you cannot repeat the crashing?! Are you also >> using version 2.2.5? I attached my settings because with me the >> meshing operation crashes. >> > > Yes, I cannot, I used > > gmsh ~/Desktop/ASSEMBLY\ CASSETE_04.STEP -clscale .3 -degree 2 -2 > > and the mesh was created without crashing. > > The Netgen Optimized optimizes tetrahedral meshes. Gmsh goes through the 3D meshing and AFAIK I then have tetrahedral elements. I am not too familiar with the commandline arguments you are using but are you not only doing a 2D mesh?
Might that explain it? Regards, Roland > > >>> how you can apply netgen optimizer on your >>> structure : it is only composed of surfaces. >> This is simple to explain. I am not well versed on the internal >> operation of the netgen optimizer:). May I ask when it does make sense >> to use the optimizer? >> >> Regards, >> >> Roland >> >> >> >> >>> >>> Jean-François. >>> >>> >>>> Can someone comment on this? Attached is the model. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Roland >>>> >>>> >>>> Ruth V. Sabariego wrote: >>>>> Your model seems to have only lines and points, that's why you >>>>> don't see a 2D/3D mesh. >>>>> The 1D mesh is done correctly. >>>>> >>>>> Ruth >>>>> >>>>> Roland Tollenaar wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a model which fails to mesh. gmsh says its meshing it >>>>>> (console) but nothing happens. (0s) >>>>>> >>>>>> I have seen this same behaviour with STL models previously and >>>>>> simply assumed that gmsh could not handle stl files. >>>>>> >>>>>> However this is a step model of a type that gmsh previously did >>>>>> mesh well. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have attached the model. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kind regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Roland >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> gmsh mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr. Ir. Ruth V. Sabariego >>>>> University of Liege, Institut Montefiore, >>>>> Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Applied & >>>>> Computational Electromagnetics (ACE), >>>>> Sart Tilman Campus, Grande Traverse, 10 (B28), B-4000 LIEGE, Belgium >>>>> phone: +32-4-3663737 -- fax: +32-4-3662910 -- >>>>> http://elap.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/ >>>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gmsh mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
