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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I wonder if there is a lower limit for the characteristic length. I have a rather simple 2D geometry, and if I set the cl for just two points to 0.0001, gmsh crashes during the meshing after having given the error message "3 identical points in Qtest". The .gmsh-errors file is not written. With cl=0.0005, this does not happen (but it takes veeery long to compute the mesh).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best regards,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Matthias</FONT>
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