Thank you! Now I understand what intersect.pos is for :-)
Is there a way to fix the intersections within gMsh? 
Best,
Einat


On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:15 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I have reproduced your problem. There are indeed intersections, you can see 
> them when you merge the intersect.pos file written by gmsh to your geo file. 
> Now where the intersections come from and why MeshLab doesn’t find them I 
> don’t know. But at least you can see where they are.
>  
> HTH,
>  
> Matthias
>  
>  
>  
> Von: Einat Lev [mailto:einat...@ldeo.columbia.edu] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2012 05:47
> An: gmsh@geuz.org
> Betreff: [Gmsh] intersecting faces...
>  
> Hello all
> I have an STL model that I created in MeshLAB. MeshLAB can't find any 
> self-intersecting faces in the 2D surface.
> I then Merge the STL file into a GEO file and try to create a 3D mesh by 
> selecting the surface and adding a volume.
> However, the 3D meshing algorithm complains about self-intersecting faces. 
> These must be somewhere in the interior of the body, right? So, what can I do 
> to solve this problem?
> Attached are my STL and GEO files.
> All the best,
> Einat
> 
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