[Gmsh] Problem importing STEP file from Rhino3d
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Tue Oct 7 20:59:30 CEST 2008
Peter Wainwright wrote:
> As a first exercise with Rhino, I created a primitive sphere and
> exported it as STEP. However, When I import this into gmsh 2.2.4
> (linked with OpenCASCADE 6.2), I find that the bounding curves of the
> surfaces are wrong, and the surfaces do not meet. Can anyone tell me
> what is the problem here?
Yes, it's an annoying bug in OpenCascade's CAD cleaning routines.
Disable "Remove small edges" in Options->Geometry->General and it should
work.
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> I have attached the .stp file and a screenshot of the resulting model...
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> Peter Wainwright
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