Thanks Fernando,

That worked like a charm! 

# However, I could not read the exported file back in to Gmsh. But that's not a 
problem since I need only the node/element coordinates. 


​
Regards,
Shamsul Arefin
ph: 017655441319
On Wed 11 Oct 10:09:26 pm, Fernando Lorenzo <[email protected]> wrote:
If you save your mesh as Tochnog format, you will only get the tetrahedron or 
hexahedron if that is what you choose. 

Your file will be name.dat. It will have a lot of details on how to set up the 
input file for tochnog, but you will find all the nodes and connectivities.


Fernando Lorenzo

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 11, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Shamsul Arefin <[email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]]> wrote:


How to mesh only the volume(s) and not the lines, surfaces etc?

In my project I have imported a step-file of a bearing race (imagine a hollow 
cylinder). I want meshes on the volume only. The other geometric entities 
should be ignored. How do I make that happen?

Normally if I use the '3D' mesh from the command tree, i find elements on the 
line, surface and volumes. Whereas, I don't want any 2D elements rather only 3D 
tetrahedron was expected. 

1# I have tried to delete the geometry items, the edges, and failed. >>> idea 
was to keep only the volume entity in the CAD and mesh only the volume.

2# i tried to define physical entities of the volumes, to mesh only that 
physical entity, and failed. 
 a. I could not perform a selection (in coding) only for the volume elements.. 
 b. even if I could succeed to select the volumes, I don't find a Meshing 
command to mesh only a particular physical entity. 



​
Regards,
Shamsul Arefin


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