[Gmsh] Problems with the transfinite Algo

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 12/02/10 17:29, Henning.Scheufler at dlr.de wrote:
> Hi everybody, <<TestCubeWorking.geo>>  <<TestCubeNOTWorking.geo>>
>
> I have a problem creating a 3d-Mesh with the Transfinite Volume
> algorithms. To explain the Problem I made two Cubes. The only difference
> between the Cubes is that the two points have other numbers.
>
> (In CubeNOTWorking Point 7 and 8 are swapped.) Because of this i had to
> change all the arguments of the line command and in the transfinite
> surface command i had to change 2 points.
>
> As you can see, if you load the TestCubeNOTWorking.geo, you can’t create
> a 3d-mesh because the surfaces are incompatible. But the 2d Surface
> seems to be correct. I have really no idea why this isn’t working I
> checked it
>
> a million times and tried a lot of things.
>
> At the moment I want to create a sphere with gmsh. But I got the Problem
> with transfinite volume algorithms. The numbers of the Volume are
> written in red.

With recent versions you can simply omit the list of control points, 
i.e. simply use

Transfinite Volume {1};

Does that solve your problem?


>
> Volume 1 and 6 is working where as 2,3,4,5 isn’t working. if the
> transfinite Volume algorithms isn’t working, is it possible to solve it
> with the extrude command?
>
> Thanks
>
> Henning
>
>
>
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