[Gmsh] Import of Brep files

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Tue Oct 16 21:57:50 CEST 2007


Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> Jacques Kools wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>  
>>
>> 1) All surfaces ( 1 through 23) are visible in the Visibility dialog 
>> box. I can turn their visualization on and off without any problem.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.

OK, found the bug. It will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the report!

Ch.

> 
>>  
>>
>> 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
> 
> 
> 
>>  
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
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