[Gmsh] Meshing the volume between a model and a surrouding cuboid

[dolfyn]

Dear Mike,

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.dolfyn.net/dolfyn/gmsh/tutorial07.html

Next step with the 'attractor' can be achieved with a background 
mesh (a todo for me).

Enjoy!
Henk

Op Thursday 18 June 2009, schreef Mike B.:
> Dear Gmsh users,
>
> I'm rephrasing a previous question, hopefully to make it clearer
> what I'm after:
>
> I have an object (given as an STL file) and which I load it into
> Gmsh with Merge 'obj.stl'. I then define in Gmsh a control volume
> ( a cuboid ) around the model.
>
> Now, I want to mesh the volume between the cuboid and the model.
> How do I do that?. Also, I'd like to have a finer mesh close to
> the model surface and a coarser one away from it (use the
> `Attractor' field?).
>
> Would appreciate help how to achieve these two.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.