Hi Christophe, since you are working on "real" CAD routines: Do you also plan to implement a possibility to detect and merge duplicated surfaces (including partial overlaps) on CAD level? The "cut and merge faces" does not work in quite some cases...
Matthias > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. April 2013 13:15 > An: Songting Luo > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Gmsh] Two overlapping spheres > > > On 27 Mar 2013, at 00:40, Songting Luo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I want to generate a 3D mesh for two overlapping spheres. How can I > > combine these two spheres as one single object (as a union), and generate > the mesh? Please let me know, thank you very much. > > > > Gmsh's internal small CAS engine does not compute boolean operations; > you'll need to either create the geometry directly (computing the > intersections yourself), or use a CAD modeler (e.g. Freecad) to create the > geometry and export e.g. in STEP. > > We are working toward integrating "real" CAD creation routines in Gmsh, but > it's not ready yet for general use. > > > > > best, > > > > Luo > > _______________________________________________ > > gmsh mailing list > > [email protected] > > 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 > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH Firmensitz: 72072 Tuebingen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian O. Erbe, Reiner Thede Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 380137 _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
