Thank you for the reply. I attach the Sphere_1.brep file. You should be able to create the same brep, if you start Salome 5.1.3, create a sphere primitive and export the sphere as brep.
Thanks Jan ________________________________ From: Jean-Francois Remacle <[email protected]> To: Jan Schmitz <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 3:11:38 PM Subject: Re: [Gmsh] sphere created in Salome produces empty mesh can you send us the brep ? Le 08-juil.-10 à 12:36, Jan Schmitz a écrit : Dear all, >I am trying to mesh a sphere that I have created in Salome and saved in either >BREP,STL,STEP or IGES format. > >Opening any of those geometries in Gmsh shows nothing, except for the STL >format >which shows a surface triangular representation of the sphere. Is this >expected >behaviour? > >Running any of these commands produces empty meshes or error messages: >gmsh -3 Sphere_1.brep >gmsh -3 Sphere_1.stl >gmsh -3 Sphere_1.step >gmsh -3 Sphere_1.iges > >Is the reason that a sphere has no edges? If yes, what steps are required to >save geometries with spherical boundaries in Salome and to create a 3D >tetrahedral mesh for them using Gmsh? > >Btw, creating a Box in Salome and have Gmsh create a 3D mesh for this box >works >fine. > >Thanks >Jan > >_______________________________________________ >gmsh mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Jean-Francois Remacle Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) - Louvain School of Engineering Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC) Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME) Tel : +32-10-472352 -- Mobile : +32-473-909930
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