Hi Louise, You can not save a mesh in a step file. You can only save a CAD in step file, and probably a CAD made using OCC factory. The "logs" you copy in your mail are confusing. Having a look to one of your files can help. Regards
> De: "Louise Olsen" <[email protected]> > À: "DILASSER Guillaume" <[email protected]>, "gmsh" <[email protected]> > Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Mars 2020 01:11:36 > Objet: Re: [Gmsh] saving GMSH mesh into a CAD file format like STEP > 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: > 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 [ https://twitter.com/DrOlsenKettle ] [ > https://twitter.com/DrOlsenKettle | @DrOlsenKettle ] [ > https://twitter.com/DrOlsenKettle | ] [ https://mail.umontpellier.fr/mail ] > [ https://mail.umontpellier.fr/mail | W ] [ > https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=lolsenkettle > | Webpage ] > [ https://mail.umontpellier.fr/mail | W ] [ > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louise_Olsen-Kettle | ResearchGate ] W [ > http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/uqlkett1/ | eSpace ] W [ > http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-3949 | ORCID ] > [ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louise_Olsen-Kettle ] [ > http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/uqlkett1/ ] [ > http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-3949 ] > 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 [ > http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Command_002dline-options | > here ] . > Hope this helped, > Guillaume Dilasser > De : gmsh <[email protected]> De la part de Louise Olsen > Envoyé : vendredi 28 février 2020 08:04 > À : gmsh @onelab.info > 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 [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > T +61 (0)3 9214 8318 [ https://twitter.com/DrOlsenKettle ] [ > https://twitter.com/DrOlsenKettle | @DrOlsenKettle ] [ > https://twitter.com/DrOlsenKettle | ] > W [ > https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=lolsenkettle > | Webpage ] > W [ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louise_Olsen-Kettle | ResearchGate ] > W > [ http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/uqlkett1 | eSpace ] W [ > http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-3949 | ORCID ] > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Frédéric Dubois, PhD, Eng. --- Directeur adjoint du LMGC. Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil - CNRS/UM cc 048, 163 rue Auguste Broussonnet, 34090 Montpellier http://www.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr/~dubois Tel: 33/0 467144984 Mobile: 33/0 635490843
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