2011/7/14 Tibi Chelcea <[email protected]>: > I'm working on a system that simulates a family of components; these > components are fixed (as in modeled once, and then re-used again and again), > but the heatsinks attached to them are user-defined. Gmsh takes a long time > to mesh this system, so I'd like to cut down the time used for meshing. I > was wondering whether it's possible to use Gmsh as follows: > - Pre-mesh each of the components and save these meshes > - Then, when meshing the entire system (a component + an user-defined > heatsink), Gmsh loads the mesh for the component, and meshes only the > heatsink. > Is this possible to do? I've seen some mentioning of "background mesh" in > the documentation, but there is very little on that, and it's not clear > whether it does what I'd like or how to define it. > Any hint/help is really appreciated.
I don't know the answer to your question, though it does sound like a useful thing to be able to do. But I can tell you that background meshes aren't relevant, they're for creating nonuniformity, i.e. having the element size vary from place to place. See http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Specifying-mesh-element-sizes for the documentation and Tutorial 7 for an example http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#t7_002egeo _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
