[Gmsh] question about Gmsh

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 07/05/10 16:30, Vitali Koissin wrote:
>
> Dear,
>
> does Gmsh mesher able to handle a volume penetrated by lines?
>
> (I want to model a composite with randomly oriented straight or curved fibres, as shown in the atached screenshot. To reduce DOFs, it is better to model the fibres as beams. So I wonder if your software could mesh a volume, taking the lines as a sort of internal "semi-singularities''
>
> In my model each end of every line ("fibre") always situates on a facet of the cube ("matrix volume"). In your screenshots I see that Gmsh successfully meshes a volume penetrated by a "tube". But does it work if we put the "tube" radius to be zero, i.e. when the tube degenerates into a line? - This is my case...)
>

Hi Vitaly - Unfortunately we don't yet support that feature. You can do 
it in 2D with the "Line In Surface" command, but not yet in 3D.


>
> Best regards,
> Vitaly
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