I think it is supposed to be 6 tets: 3 successive rectangle to triangle mappings
see the attached mesh:

Attachment: 1hex6tet.msh
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Julien
On 20 May 2011, at 13:39, Smith, Mark wrote:

I think 5 tets in a cube see attached.
mark

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Geordie McBain
Sent: 20 May 2011 03:05
To: Michel Dupront
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Subject: Re: [Gmsh] from hexahedrons to tetrahedrons

I have a structured mesh with hexahedrons and I would like to split
each hexahedrons into tetrahedrons.
Is it possible ?

Hello. Someone asked me this the other day. At first I thought it should be easy, but then I found I didn't know how to do it, in Gmsh or otherwise. I had thought that one should be able to simply split each hexahedron, but then reading the documentation for how it's done in the VTK library:

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/ classvtkDataSetTriangleFilter.html

I saw that one must meet `the issue of face compatibility across quadrilateral faces (which way to orient the diagonal?)'.

I figure then that it should be possible to export a hexahedral mesh as VTK, use this VTK function to split to tetrahedra and save as VTK, then reread the VTK. I haven't actually gone on to try this.

I would be interested to hear of a pure Gmsh solution, if anyone has one.

if yes into how many tetrahedrons ?

I think the answer for this should be six, since the volume of a tetrahedron with three mutually perpendicular edges of unit length is 1/6.

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