<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thank you for the reply. I attach the Sphere_1.brep file.<br><br>You should be able to create the same brep, if you start Salome 5.1.3, create a sphere primitive and export the sphere as brep.<br><br>Thanks<br>Jan<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jean-Francois Remacle <jean-francois.remacle@uclouvain.be><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jan Schmitz <schmitz_j@ymail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> gmsh@geuz.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, July 8, 2010 3:11:38
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<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off">can you send us the brep ?<br><div><div>Le 08-juil.-10 à 12:36, Jan Schmitz a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Dear all,<br>I am trying to mesh a sphere that I have created in Salome and saved in either BREP,STL,STEP or IGES format.<br><br>Opening any of those geometries in Gmsh shows nothing, except for the STL format which shows a surface triangular representation of the sphere. Is this expected behaviour?<br><br>Running
any of these commands produces empty meshes or error messages:<br>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.brep<br>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.stl<br>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.step<br>gmsh -3 Sphere_1.iges<br><br>Is the reason that a sphere has no edges? If yes, what steps are required to save geometries with spherical boundaries in Salome and to create a 3D tetrahedral mesh for them using Gmsh?<br><br>Btw, creating a Box in Salome and have Gmsh create a 3D mesh for this box works fine.<br><br>Thanks<br>Jan<br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>gmsh mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh">http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh</a></span><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size:
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