Hello,
I have a few questions regarding gmsh usage.
What is the meaning of the mesh element size when supplied to points?
Does this value provide a mapping between gmsh coordinates and physical
units? If I would like to describe the geometry in thousandths of an
inch, what value should be given to the fourth argument of elementary Point?
Also, the documentation describes Line Loops as being ordered and
oriented. I assume ordered means the indices (IDs) of the lines are
increasing in the expression list. What makes a Line Loop oriented? If I
am manually creating geometry files, how can I ensure a Line Loop is
oriented?
Also, the Extrude command can be used in an expression, where the
results can be referred to by indexing into a variable. The
documentation shows an example of an extrusion of a line to a surface,
and how the indices map to the different lines and surface of the
extrusion. What about an extrusion of a surface into a volume? What
indices map to what surfaces when extruding a surface?
Ultimately the goal is to create an axisymmetric mesh that can be used
with OpenFOAM. I am currently using the following simple geometry to try
and understand gmsh (I am uncertain about the Physical Surfaces and Volume):
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meshSize = 1;
Point(1) = {0, 0, 0, meshSize};
Point(2) = {0, 266, 0, meshSize};
Point(3) = {266, 266, 0, meshSize};
Point(4) = {266, 15, 0, meshSize};
Point(5) = {5830, 15, 0, meshSize};
Point(6) = {5830, 645, 0, meshSize};
Point(7) = {10264, 645, 0, meshSize};
Point(8) = {10264, 0, 0, meshSize};
Line(1) = {1, 2};
Line(2) = {2, 3};
Line(3) = {3, 4};
Line(4) = {4, 5};
Line(5) = {5, 6};
Line(6) = {6, 7};
Line(7) = {7, 8};
Line(8) = {8, 1};
Line Loop(9) = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8};
Plane Surface(1) = {9};
Coherence;
Rotate {{1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, -.04363323129985824} {
Surface{1};
}
out[] = Extrude {{1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, .08726646259971647} {
Surface{1};
};
Physical Surface("Front") = out[0];
Physical Surface("Back") = out[5];
Physical Surface("Atmos") = out[2];
Physical Surface("Vac") = out[3];
Physical Surface("Top") = out[4];
Physical Volume(1) = {out[1]};
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Thanks,
Chase Leslie
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