Roland Tollenaar wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone got some experience with using gmsh as a pre-processor for > calculix. > > 99% of the elements in the mesh generated by gmesh are classified as > "bad elements" by cgx/ccx and jacobian has nonpositive determinant. > > Advice would be welcome, evidently I am doing something wrong..... >
1) use "Optimize" in the mesh menu. You can check the quality in Tools->Statistics->Mesh (Gamma). 2) maybe your mesh format conversion routine saves the elements with a wrong volume sign (it depends on the convention used...) > Regards, > > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh > > -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
