[Gmsh] Use of OpenCASCADE with an STL file?

[Gavin Ridley]

Thanks very much Dr. Geuzaine for the reply. I've tried what you suggest
below but get "Error: Unknown surface 2". The GUI however tells me that
surface 2 was created as a face of the Box(2). Why is surface 2 unknown
here?

// Goal: create mesh between box and stl surface contained within.
> Merge "dingding.stl";
> Surface Loop(1) = {1};
> SetFactory("OpenCASCADE");
>
> // This box fully bounds the .stl
> Box(2) = {-10,-20,-10, 49,100,60};
>
> // Switch back to built-in to make a volume using the
> // OpenCASCADE-created surfaces of Box(2)
> SetFactory("Built-in");
> Surface Loop(8) = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
> Volume(10) = {8, 1};
> Physical Volume("inside") = {10};
>
>
PS: have you considered creating a forum rather than a mailing list? In my
opinion it would be more easily searchable. It seems paraview somewhat
recently switched to that model.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:56 PM Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at uliege.be>
wrote:

>
>
> > On 7 Jan 2019, at 05:24, Gavin Ridley <gavin.keith.ridley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'd like to define a volume using an OpenCASCADE Box entity, then
> subtract a volume defined by an STL from it.
> >
> > I have attempted to Merge my .stl file into the geometry with the
> OpenCASCADE kernel already loaded, then attempt the same operation as
> above. This is the behavior I expect to work, for instance, attempting:
> >
> > SetFactory("OpenCASCADE");
> > Merge "dingding.stl";
> > CreateGeometry;
> > Surface Loop(1) = {1};
> > Volume(1) = {1};
> > // And some more stuff...
> >
> > Unexpectedly ends up giving:
> >
> > Error   : Unknown OpenCASCADE surface with tag 1
> > Error   : 'dingding.geo', line 3 : Could not add surface loop
> > Error   : Unknown OpenCASCADE surface loop with tag 1
> > Error   : 'dingding.geo', line 4 : Could not add volume
> >
> > And without OpenCASCADE, the volume gets created successfully.
>
> Indeed, OpenCASCADE does not support STL surfaces, while the built-in CAD
> kernel treats them as "discrete surfaces".
>
> Note that as long as you don't want to do boolean operations on these
> surfaces, you can actually combine both CAD kernels, e.g. create a
> "Built-in" volume that is delimited by both a "Built-in" surface and an
> "OpenCASCADE" surface. Depending on your application this could do the
> trick.
>
> Christophe
>
>
> >
> > Is it the case that OpenCASCADE and merged .stl files are incompatible
> at the moment in gmsh? Ideally I'd like to generate a CFD mesh for an
> obstruction ( from.stl file) in a channel (from OpenCASCADE geometry),
> generating a boundary layer mesh as well around the STL file.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Gavin Ridley
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-- 
Thanks,
Gavin Ridley
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