On 02 Dec 2012, at 17:10, wibr <li...@wibr.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently in the process of rewriting a tool to create geometries in > form of .geo files. The previous tool was not written by me. > > For creating the geometry for 2D meshes it will just create a list of points, > lines and a surface which will then be extruded. So far no problem. > However for 3D meshes after this exact same process all the connecting > lines/surfaces between the original surface and the extruded one are deleted > and then recreated (otherwise the meshing won't produce the desired result). > This seems rather inelegant to me. I would very much prefer to create the > extruded part on my own, since deleting the items requires the numbers of > those, which are determined from example geometries and must be hard coded, > therefore the whole thing becomes really error-prone. > > So, is there anything what the Extrude command does which can't be done > manually using the basic elements and commands like Point/Line/Surface and > Translate/Rotate? >
The only thing is that transformation in Extrude can be used to create structured meshes (cf. Layers). Christophe > Thanks! > Wilhelm Brasch > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > gmsh@geuz.org > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list gmsh@geuz.org http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
