[Gmsh] Newby: How long does it take ...

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Bernhard Stoevesandt wrote:
> hello,
> 
> since i'm new to meshing and the program, i don't have any estimate how
> long the meshing should take. now i started the program yesterday on this
> 2D structur. i did start 2d meshing and the (pretty new and not so slow)
> pc is running now for more than 16 hours. is that just the time it takes -
> or what's wrong. attachted is the input geo-file.
> 

Bernhard - strange: meshing your example on my Mac works just fine (it
takes less than 1 second), but it fails on Windows with the default
algorithm ("Isotropic").

I will look into it. In the meantime, use the "Triangle" algorithm (in
Tools->Options->Mesh->General->2D algorithm). The resulting mesh will
not be as nice, but it should work on Windows.

Take care,

Christophe

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Christophe Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
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