Dear David<br><br>I attach you the .geo file and the .msh I created over it. If you try to refine the msh, it will do it after giving a good list of errors. Over the .geo file, meshing you will obtain the same mesh, and if you try to refine it there, at least in my case, the program crashes.<br>
<br>Than you for your help<br><br>Javier<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/30 David Colignon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Colignon@ulg.ac.be">David.Colignon@ulg.ac.be</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Javier Piñeiro wrote:<br>
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Dear All<br>
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I am currently working on my MSc Thesis at Cranfield University (UK) about Open Source and CFD, and Gmsh is one of the software packages I am evaluating.<br>
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My problem is that the startpoint for the comparartive is a mesh developed in Gambit. It is a quite big file, with around 500000 cells and 34 Mb. The format file is .msh, but Gmsh is not able to open it (even though it opens .msh).<br>
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Hi Javier,<br>
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I suppose Gambit and Gmsh use .msh as an extension for mesh file, but it doesn't mean that the format of the files is the same (open both with a text editor to see the differences). I am not aware that Gmsh is able to open Gambit mesh files... Gmsh has its own format for mesh files: <a href="http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh-full.html#SEC56" target="_blank">http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh-full.html#SEC56</a><div class="im">
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Does anyone know what the problem might be? Is there a way to convert the file to something readible by Gmsh, if possible in open source? <br>
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Gmsh can also import and export meshes in I-deas UNV, Nastran<br>
BDF, STL, Medit MESH and VRML 1.0 files format<div class="im"><br>
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the size of the file or the number of cells a limitation<br>
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I also tried to do the mesh from scratch on Gmsh, including the geometry. I got a mesh but if I try to refine it the program crashes. <br>
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Can you send us your .geo file ?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Dave<br>
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Changing the options in the characteristic length does not have any effect, it generates exactly the same mesh. Does anyone know something about this?<br>
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Thank you in advanced for your help<br>
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Kind regards<br>
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Javier Pineiro <br>
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