> On 5 Mar 2020, at 01:11, Louise Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Guillame, > > Thanks for your suggestions. After creating the mesh I got the following > error message when I tried to save the mesh as a STEP file: >
STEP is a format to store geometries (CAD data), not meshes. Christophe > Info : Done optimizing mesh (28.8829 s) > Info : 326219 nodes 2114578 elements > Info : Writing '/home/lolsenkettle/Desktop/composite research/CAD File > format/meshtargetSaveStep.geo.opt'... > Info : Done writing '/home/lolsenkettle/Desktop/composite research/CAD > File format/meshtargetSaveStep.geo.opt' > Info : Writing '/home/lolsenkettle/Desktop/composite research/CAD File > format/OlsenCheckStep.step'... > Error : No OpenCASCADE model found > > I was using the most up-to-date version of gmsh I could fine (version 4.5.4). > > Thanks, Louise > > Dr Louise Olsen-Kettle > VC Women in STEM Fellow > Mathematics Department > Swinburne University of Technology > Email [email protected] > T +61 (0)3 9214 8318 @DrOlsenKettle > W Webpage > W ResearchGate W eSpace W ORCID > > From: DILASSER Guillaume <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 29 February 2020 2:40 AM > To: Louise Olsen <[email protected]>; [email protected] > <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: saving GMSH mesh into a CAD file format like STEP > > Hi Louise, > > Gmsh operates using .geo files and .msh files. “.geo” are files that contain > the definition of geometrical objects and “.msh” are files containing the > meshes generated by the program based on a specified geometry. I do not know > if any commercial CAD software natively supports .geo or .msh files but I > doubt it. There might still by third-party plugins for some CAD software that > might do that. > > On the other hand, Gmsh can save both geometries and mesh to a variety of > output formats. If you are using Gmsh GUI, simply go the menu bar File > > Export or hit Ctrl+E. That will open a window in which you can select the > output file format (using the “Type” line, under the “File name” line). If > you use Gmsh on the command line, use the –format option described in the > online documentation here. > > Hope this helped, > > Guillaume Dilasser > > De : gmsh <[email protected]> De la part de Louise Olsen > Envoyé : vendredi 28 février 2020 08:04 > À : [email protected] > Objet : [Gmsh] saving GMSH mesh into a CAD file format like STEP > > Hi, > > I know that GMSH can input CAD model files such as STEP format, I want to > check if any CAD software can input GMSH meshes? And can GMSH save meshes > into a CAD file format such as STEP? > > Thanks, Louise > > Dr Louise Olsen-Kettle > VC Women in STEM Fellow > Mathematics Department > Swinburne University of Technology > Email [email protected] > T +61 (0)3 9214 8318 @DrOlsenKettle > W Webpage > W ResearchGate W eSpace W ORCID > > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh — Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
