[Gmsh] Gmsh and Inkscape

[Mengda Wu]

Thank you so much for the help. It works very well after defining the
surface.

A minor thing is the generated mesh is a little bit nonuniform, i.e. of
different size. This can be seen from the attachment. But this is really a
minor thing. I think it is because the nodes on the curve is not uniformly
distributed when Inkscape outputs DXF file.

Mengda

2009/4/9 Jean-Francois Remacle <jean-francois.remacle at uclouvain.be>

>
> Le 09-avr.-09 à 00:10, Mengda Wu a écrit :
>
> Hi Jose,
>
>    Thank you so much for help.
>
>    Following your steps, I was able to load the shape into Gmsh. That's
> great! But when I I try to mesh, it
> did not generate 2D triangulation. What I did is just click the "2D" button
> in Mesh. I attach a screenshot
> for what I got. I am quite new to Gmsh. Are there other steps I need to
> mesh?
>
>
> You only have a curve, you should create a surface, e.g. through gmsh's
> GUI.
>
> jfr
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Mengda
>
> 2009/4/8 Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida <moitinho at civil.ist.utl.pt>
>
>> On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Mengda Wu wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> >    I am looking for a way to generate a 2D triangulation of a shape (in
>> the
>> > attachment) by Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/).
>>
>> Don't know if it is the shortest route, but it works ...
>>
>> - In inkscape "save as" .dxf
>> - open in qcad and save as dxf 2000
>> - use perl script in utils/converters/autocad/dxf2geo.pl to convert to geo
>> - in gmsh define surface and mesh
>>
>> > I am wondering if anyone has done this before. It will be great if I can
>> > reload the output into inkscape afterwards.
>>
>> Just save as svg, probably without background.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ZP
>>
>>
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