On 27 Jul 2011, at 18:45, Rui Maciel wrote:

> I've defined a volume by extruding a surface through a curved path (see 
> attached .geo file), which can be used to generate a 3D mesh without any 
> incidents.  Yet, when I run the "refine by splitting" command something 
> strange happens. It appears that some of the newly added nodes aren't placed 
> in the extrusion path.  This leads me to believe that there is some problem 
> with the way I've defined the surface, but I couldn't find anything 
> suspicious with it.
> 
> So, can someone please take a look at the .geo file to see if there is 
> something fishy in the way the volume was defined?
> 

Hi Rui - Indeed, you hit a limitation of our "refine by splitting" 
algorithm--it will correctly put surface points back on the CAD, but not volume 
points.

To refine your mesh you should introduce a parameter in your .geo file instead 
to change the number of layers, etc.


> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Rui Maciel
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