<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Dave,<br><br>Thanks for the prompt reply.<br><br>So to STL mesh is determined by whatever created the STL model?.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Mike.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 7/29/09, David Colignon <i><David.Colignon@ulg.ac.be></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Colignon <David.Colignon@ulg.ac.be><br>Subject: Re: [Gmsh] Surface mesh of an STL model<br>To: "Mike B." <mb78aa@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "Gmsh mai. lis." <gmsh@geuz.org><br>Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7:38 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Mike,<br><br>from: <a href="http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2008/003744.html" target="_blank">http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2008/003744.html</a><br><br>...<br>Gmsh will not remesh these STL faces, though. It's something we will<br>reintroduce at
some point, but the remesher is not ready yet.<br>...<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>--<br>David Colignon, Ph.D.<br>Collaborateur Logistique du F.R.S.-FNRS<br>CÉCI - Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif<br>ACE - Applied & Computational Electromagnetics<br>Institut Montefiore B28<br>Université de Liège<br>4000 Liège - BELGIQUE<br>Tél: +32 (0)4 366 37 32<br>Fax: +32 (0)4 366 29 10<br>WWW: <a href="http://hpc.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/" target="_blank">http://hpc.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/</a><br>Agenda: <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=david.colignon%40gmail.com" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=david.colignon%40gmail.com</a><br><br><br>Mike B. wrote:<br>> Dear All,<br>> <br>> I have an STL model which I load (with the `Merge' command) into Gmsh. The model is a boundary representation (a shell).<br>> <br>> When meshing this model (and others), the mesh on the
surface of the model seems fixed and unaffected by the characteristic length settings. Any suggestions how to control this surface mesh (preferably with fields)?.<br>> <br>> Here is a simple script which loads `sph.stl', a sphere shell in saved STL format:<br>> <br>> Mesh.CharacteristicLengthFromPoints = 0;<br>> Mesh.CharacteristicLengthExtendFromBoundary = 1;<br>> Mesh.CharacteristicLengthFromCurvature = 0;<br>> Mesh.Format = 1;<br>> Mesh.CharacteristicLengthMin = 0.01;<br>> Mesh.CharacteristicLengthMax = 0.05;<br>> Merge "sph.stl";<br>> Surface Loop( 1 ) = { 1 };<br>> Mesh 2;<br>> Save "sph.msh";<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Mike.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gmsh mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org"
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