[Gmsh] Import of Brep files

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Tue Oct 16 18:46:29 CEST 2007


Jacques Kools wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I hope things are well with you. I had a question : when I open or 
> import the attached brep file with GMSH 2.0.8 , there are a few things 
> that don’t seem to work well:
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> 1) All surfaces ( 1 through 23) are visible in the Visibility dialog 
> box. I can turn their visualization on and off without any problem.
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> 2) When I select “surfaces” or “surface numbers”, in the 
> options/geometry pane, only a single dotted line ( for surface 1) and a 
> handful numbers appear. When I want to create physical surfaces, I can 
> only select surface nr 1 ( the cylinder).
> 

Indeed, it looks like our geometrical surface representation does not
work for most of the surfaces in your file... I'll have a look.

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> How would it be possible to I select each one of the geometrical 
> surfaces in the GUI ??
> 

You can use the following workaround: 1) mesh the geometry, 2) then you
can select a surface by clicking anywhere on the mesh.

Christophe



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> All the best,
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> Jacques
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