Hi Matthias, http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10846&p=103978#p103978 whereas still the question remains what exactly means "conformal". Is this conformal? Looks like it, no? Regards
26.10.2015, 13:28, "Zenker, Dr. Matthias" <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > AFAIK gmsh can NOT generate a conformal 3D mesh for a multibody STEP file > with common interfaces between the bodies, (except for very simple cases > where "cut and merge faces" works). If I am wrong here, I would be most > interested to learn how this is achieved. > The only way I know to achieve a conformal mesh with OpenSource tools is to > use Salomé, import the STEP there, and do a partition. Then you can either do > the meshing in Salomé or use gmsh (which has a better meshing capability than > Salomé to my experience). In the latter case, export the partitioned geometry > in brep format, import in gmsh and mesh. > > HTH, > > Matthias > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Anan Im [mailto:[email protected]] >> Gesendet: Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2015 10:41 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: [Gmsh] conformal mulitregion meshing from commandline +step file >> import >> >> Hi everybody, >> as to my knowledge gmsh is capable of "conformal" meshing from command >> line: For example with Justin Blacks pycalculix on >> http://justinablack.com/pycalculix/ one can use gmsh for it, in this case >> in a >> way, where the meshing functions are written into the .geo file - beneath >> the cad functions. >> On the other hand there are scripts that export step files for meshing to >> gmsh, using its command line interface. Already I experimented with >> exporting a so called compound - but did not succeed in terms of conformal >> meshing by now. >> >> Which leads to the question: >> Can not one communicate the meshing functions (Mesh.*) from/through >> the command line, if geometry is imported from a cad program, lets say in >> step format, anything different from geo? >> >> I might express that I will be very thankful (and not only mine) if there >> gets >> (known) a non interactive conformal meshing interface to the open source >> world. >> So if you can exclude that there is a way, which would be a valuable >> information in itself btw, would you put this as "feature request" on the >> list >> of future development? >> >> Thanks in advance > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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
