[Gmsh] Version 3

[cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be]

> On 19 Apr 2017, at 15:59, Alessandro Vicini <alessandro.vicini at sitael.com> wrote:
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> I just downloaded latest version and had a quick look at it. First of all, thank you to all developers as the new version is really a big step forward.
> I have one question: I see that if I generate a sphere using its primitive function, and then I export the unrolled geometry,

You should almost never export as unrolled: this is only for "flattening" geo files made with the built-in kernel. (The fact that it creates points and splines on OpnenCascade models is an undocumented feature that we sometimes use for debugging.) 

If you want to export a flat geometry with the OpenCascade kernel, use

Save "file.brep";

This will save the native OpenCascade brep.

Note that Gmsh never translates between CAD formats: it directly attacks the native CAD kernel APIs - there is no intermediate representation. 


> I find splines (and thus lots of points) inside it, instead of simple circle arcs. Is there some specific reason for this? Is it related to the use of the opencascade kernel?
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> Alessandro
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