[Gmsh] problem with 2D geometry representation?

[Hugh Blackburn]

Hi there,

Found something funny (or maybe I just did not understand) here. The
following code draws a segment of a circle as an inner part and out
part (the curves are drawn using Circle).  But the arcs seem
distorted: when I draw two points that ought to lie on the arcs
(Points 6 and 7) they are visibly away from the curves. I found this
also when I tried to use extrude to do the generation: the curves that
came out of Extrude did not match those drawn by Circle. What is
wrong?

(I have left off the parts of the file associated with meshing: I'm
still worried that the geometry is incorrect.)

TIA
Hugh

// -- 2D mesh algorithm: 1=MeshAdapt, 5=Delaunay, 6=Frontal
Mesh.Algorithm=1;

// -- All-quad mesh:
Mesh.SubdivisionAlgorithm=1;

lc1 = 0.1;
lc2 = 0.1;
rad = 0.5;
san = Pi/5.;

Point(1) = {0, 0, 0, lc1};
Point(2) = {-0.8*rad*Sin(san), -0.8*rad*Cos(san), lc2};
Point(3) = { 0.8*rad*Sin(san), -0.8*rad*Cos(san), lc2};
Point(4) = {-1.0*rad*Sin(san), -1.0*rad*Cos(san), lc2};
Point(5) = { 1.0*rad*Sin(san), -1.0*rad*Cos(san), lc2};

Point(6) = {0, -0.8*rad, lc2};
Point(7) = {0, -rad, lc2};

Line(1)   = {2, 1};
Line(2)   = {1, 3};
Circle(3) = {2, 1, 3};
Line(4)   = {4, 2};
Line(5)   = {3, 5};
Circle(6) = {4, 1, 5};


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Hugh Blackburn
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