Indeed for some reason OpenCASCADE does not seem to like creating a shell 
("surface loop") with the given surface.

Here's another way to generate the volume without any additional points:

Attachment: extrude2.geo
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> On 27 Nov 2018, at 16:51, Alessandro Vicini <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, as I cannot create the volume from the revolution surface, I changed the 
> geo file as you can see in the attached file.
> Now the problem is that gmsh does not allow to generate a surface with the 
> boundaries that you can see in Far.jpg. 
> What could be the solution? Of course I could copy all the points along every 
> direction, but is it possible to avoid this? Thank you.
> 
> A.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Inviato: martedì 27 novembre 2018 13:32
> A: Alessandro Vicini
> Cc: [email protected]
> Oggetto: Re: [Gmsh] Problem with extrusion
> 
> 
> 
>> On 27 Nov 2018, at 13:26, Alessandro Vicini <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, thank you, in the meantime I had found that out.  From the manual 
>> I was supposing that should work also with the built-in geometry 
>> Kernel…
> 
> Indeed; it's just a particular case that the built-in kernel does not 
> handle...
> 
>> 
>> A.
>> 
>> 
>> Da: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Inviato: martedì 27 novembre 2018 13:25
>> A: Alessandro Vicini
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Oggetto: Re: [Gmsh] Problem with extrusion
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 27 Nov 2018, at 11:17, Alessandro Vicini <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Considering the attached geo file, why there is no surface generated by the 
>> extrusion?  Thank you.
>> 
>> The built-in CAD engine is quite limited for the extrusion of curves: it 
>> will not create surfaces if the origin and the destination curve are the 
>> only ones bounding the resulting surface.
>> 
>> You can use SetFactory("OpenCASCADE"); for such geometries:
>> 
>> <image001.png>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Alessandro
>> 
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> <Far.geo><Far.jpg>

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