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--></style></head><body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dear Miss/Mr.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I am just a beginner of using Gmesh.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I used to use Ansys to import STL file, generate mesh and do CFD work. I am wondering if Gmesh can generate mesh from STL file? I searched from internet, and got an answer that I need to merge a STL file to a GEO file. But I do not know, where I should put those lines</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><pre>“Mesh.CharacteristicLengthFactor=0.05;</pre><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Merge "artery.stl";</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Should I put those lines following the endline of the STL file?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">I downloaded ‘</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">artery.stl</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">’from gmesh wiki,but when I open it using Gmesh-geometry-edit, unknown code comes up. When I try my own STL file, the ‘edit’ shows a file format like that</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Solid</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Facet normal …..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Outer loop</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Vertex …..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> …..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Endfacet</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">……</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Endsolid</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">However, after I put merge command at the end of this file and reload it, nothing happens, no geo file comes. Could you please tell me what I should do? Appreciate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">By the way, I am using windows version.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Yours sincerely</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Yu</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p>
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