[Gmsh] Importing an IGES File

[Geordie McBain]

2011/7/17 Alex Evanovic <alex.evanovic at googlemail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem while importing an IGES file into gmsh. The geometry gets
> imported but the meshing does not get imported.
>
> When I import it to gmsh, I get the geometry, but not the meshing in the
> IGES file. I have to mesh it in gmsh again which I do not prefer. I want the
> IGES meshing retained.
>
> Please note that my gmsh version is compiled with Open Cascade. It's the dev
> version, gmsh nightly windows version.
>
> Could someone please suggest regarding this?

I didn't know the IGES file format supported meshing.  Are you sure it
does?  There's no mention of it at http://ts.nist.gov/standards/iges,
for example.  Perhaps when you generated the geometry and mesh
(howsoever, wheresoever) and saved it as IGES, only the geometrical
information was stored?