Hi Mark, just in case you are still interested in that topic: I have briefly tried to find out how this is solved in Joachim Schoeberl's netgen. As far as I understand, he uses OpenCascade for his "geometry healing", which i have already used successfully to repair those double surfaces. Looking into the netgen source, there is a method HealGeometry in occgeom.cpp. I don't have the time to delve into the gmsh code an see how this functionality can be incorporated there. But since you have already done gmsh programming, it may be much less effort for you to try this out.
Best regards, Matthias -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mark van Doesburg [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Montag, 13. September 2010 09:58 An: Zenker, Dr. Matthias; [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Gmsh] Double surfaces after STEP import Hello Matthias, I worked on that code and consider it a complete faillure. In many cases the OpenCASCADE algorithms would not find the intersections. The initial version was quite simple but at some point I started to stack one workaround on top of the other. Currently I do not have the time to work on another method, but some algorithms available in CGAL look promising. But in that case I would probably use BRL-CAD to generate the geometry, and importing STEP into BRL-CAD might be sub-optimal. regards, Mark "Zenker, Dr. Matthias" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I have not done FEM calculations for some time (a year or so). The last time I did them (using gmsh and Elmer), I had the problem that in geometries imported as STEP files (generated by Solidworks), adjacent bodies have their own external surface, resulting in double surfaces at the interfaces. When I use the mesh generated by gmsh in a FEM calculation (I use Elmer), I get no thermal and electrical connection because the body meshes are not connected at the interface. There have been attempts to clean up double surfaces in gmsh, but I don't know if they have come to a success. Could someone of the developpers update me on this point? Thank you! Matthias ---------------------------------------------------------------- ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH Dr.rer.nat. Matthias Zenker Dipl. Phys. Grundlagenentwicklung / Fundamental Development Waldhoernlestrasse 17 D-72072 Tuebingen Phone + 49 (0) 7071 - 755 226 Fax + 49 (0) 7071 - 755 5226 E-Mail: <mailto:[email protected]> URL: http://www.ERBE-med.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________________ ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH Firmensitz: 72072 Tuebingen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian O. Erbe, Reiner Thede Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 380137 _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
