> On 20 Aug 2018, at 14:17, Sigve Karolius <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First of all I would like to thank you for making the excellent GMSH software 
> publicly available.
> 
> Now on to my question. I am trying to rotate a surface around an axis four 
> times; thus, generating a structured hex mesh of a volume in the shape of a 
> "shell".
> 
> In the attached example you can try to generate the shape of a hollow pipe 
> (simple example for illustration purposes) with and without  
> `SetFactory("OpenCASCADE");` by rotating a rectangle four times about an 
> axis. By running the example (requires version 3.X) in the GUI you can see 
> how the error `findRootSourceFaceForFace() failed` appears when the 
> OpenCASCADE is used. The attached PNGs are screenshots of the respective 
> result. 
> 
> My question is if there is simply something I have completely missed in the 
> manual?

No, it's a limitation of the current implementation of extrusion combined with 
the OpenCASCADE kernel : when doing fully symmetric geometries we can't track 
the original surface - because it is replaced in the model. It's in our TODO 
list, but we don't know yet how to fix this...

Christophe




> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sigve Karolius
> 
> 
> 
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