[Gmsh] Unstructured hexahedra mesh from STL geometry

[Jean-Francois Remacle]

Le 23-nov.-10 à 17:25, Meiner Auchmeiner a écrit :

> Hi gmsh group,
>

Hello,

> I was wondering if anybody here succeeded to mesh a STL geometry with
> an unstructured mesh consisting of hexahedra elements. I'm trying to
> mesh following file(s) using standard settings, except for the
> subdivision algorithm "All hexas": 500.stl & 500.geo (see attachment).
> I'm always getting the error messages "Error: Cannot evaluate point on
> discrete face" and "Error: Cannot compute parametric coordinates on
> discrete face".  Whereas meshing the STL geometry with tetrahedron
> elements work like a charm. Is there any intermediate step necessary
> to optimize (maybe with e.g. MeshLab) the input STL geometry? Or is
> there any gmsh preprocessing option/conversion I overlooked ?
>

There is actually NO automatic hexaedral mesher in GMSH.

For doing a better STL, you can use the reparametrization tools, see

https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/wiki/STLRemeshing (username wiki, password  
wiki).

JF




> Thanks
> Uwe
>
> P.S.: The skeleton data have been obtained by courtesy of S. Van Sint
> Jan, Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université
> Libre de Bruxelles.
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