[Gmsh] sphere created in Salome produces empty mesh

[Jan Schmitz]

Thank you for the reply. I attach the Sphere_1.brep file.

You should be able to create the same brep, if you start Salome 5.1.3, create a 
sphere primitive and export the sphere as brep.

Thanks
Jan




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From: Jean-Francois Remacle <jean-francois.remacle at uclouvain.be>
To: Jan Schmitz <schmitz_j at ymail.com>
Cc: gmsh at geuz.org
Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 3:11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Gmsh] sphere created in Salome produces empty mesh

can you send us the brep ?

Le 08-juil.-10 à 12:36, Jan Schmitz a écrit :

Dear all,
>I am trying to mesh a sphere that I have created in Salome and saved in either 
>BREP,STL,STEP or IGES format.
>
>Opening any of those geometries in Gmsh shows nothing, except for the STL format 
>which shows a surface triangular representation of the sphere. Is this expected 
>behaviour?
>
>Running any of these commands produces empty meshes or error messages:
>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.brep
>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.stl
>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.step
>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.iges
>
>Is the reason that a sphere has no edges? If yes, what steps are required to 
>save geometries with spherical boundaries in Salome and to create a 3D 
>tetrahedral mesh for them using Gmsh?
>
>Btw, creating a Box in Salome and have Gmsh create a 3D mesh for this box works 
>fine.
>
>Thanks
>Jan
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