[Gmsh] Importing an IGES File

[Alex Evanovic]

Hi Geordie,

Yes, you are right. IGES does not support gmsh. I exported it as a .unv file
and that worked.

Thanks,
Alex

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Geordie McBain <gdmcbain at freeshell.org>wrote:

> 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?
>
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