[Gmsh] Unstructured hexahedra mesh from STL geometry

[Meiner Auchmeiner]

Hello again,

thank you very much for your quick reply.

2010/11/23 Jean-Francois Remacle <jean-francois.remacle at uclouvain.be>:
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> Le 23-nov.-10 à 17:25, Meiner Auchmeiner a écrit :
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> Hi gmsh group,
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>
> 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

Hmm, so do I get you right, there is no way (yet?) of generating
hexahedral meshes out of STL files in gmsh? In all my naivety I
thought it would be possible in GMSH to subdivide tetrahedra elements
in hexahedra elements... Say, what about the manual hexahedral mesher
in GMSH you just mentioned, is it - with the right manually input -
capable of meshing closed STL surface geometries with hexas?

Uwe



> 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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