[Gmsh] Not getting a volume mesh

Ruth V. Sabariego r.sabariego at ulg.ac.be
Fri Mar 23 22:09:08 CET 2012


Hi Wayne, 

You need to define the geometrical Volume:
Volume(11) = {10};
the Physical Volume is used just for tagging the elements and their further use in a e.g. FE solver.

Regards,
Ruth

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On 23 Mar 2012, at 18:41, Wayne Christopher wrote:

> I'm trying to mesh a volume defined by surfaces that are defined by tessellations.  I don't want the mesh to be based on the surface triangles - those are purely geometry and in most cases finer than the volume mesh that I want.
> 
> When I run gmsh like this:
> 
> gmsh try1.geo -3 -format msh -saveall -smooth 3 -o try1-out.gmsh
> 
> (files attached) I do not get any tetras in the output, and it appears that the output mesh is a refinement of the input mesh.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Thanks,
> 
>    Wayne
> 
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