[Gmsh] "Tag # already exists" with OpenCASCADE engine

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 16 Oct 2018, at 17:03, Wang Bin <binwang.0213 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Developers,
> 
> Thanks for the nice mesh generator.  Now I'm trying to use BooleanFragments in OpenCASCADE engine to mesh some "compsolid" model (picture) with conforming mesh on the common interface (see attachment geo file). 
> 
> <compsolid.PNG>
> But the OpenCASCADE engine will add new Points, Lines or Surfaces during the boolean operation. Thus, Gmsh keeps give me a error "Point/Line/Surface # already exists".
> 
> So, is there any method/tricks to avoid this issue? Such as reserve some tag id for the New geometry objects. Why Gmsh not using "newreg" internally to append new geometry?

Your surfaces are not correctly oriented, which leads to the creation of new entities when you create "surface loops". The duplicates are reported when you force the creation of new points after these extra entities have been created.

Christophe 





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> Thanks for your help!
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> Bin Wang  
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