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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">the problem of nonconformal mesh at volume interfaces is really annoying.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I have tried to find a solution by processing a surface mesh with a scilab script, cutting and merging duplicated interfaces, redefining the volumes and doing
the 3D mesh in gmsh. My tool is not mature yet since the handling of partially overlapping surfaces is not working like it should. But it works for duplicated surfaces which are identical, even in cases when the “cut and merge faces” recently implemented in
gmsh fails.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Do I understand correctly from the message below (“We can imagine to modify the algorithm and mesh series of connected volumes together.”) that there is a solution
within gmsh in sight? Is there actually work going on at this field?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If I can contribute to a solution, I would be glad to do so.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jean-François Remacle [mailto:jean-francois.remacle@uclouvain.be]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 26. Sep</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">tember 2012 11:10<br>
<b>An:</b> Stefan.Kremer@Schoeck.de<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gmsh@geuz.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Gmsh] import external-generated geometry in gmsh</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 25 sept. 2012 à 08:59, <a href="mailto:Stefan.Kremer@Schoeck.de">
Stefan.Kremer@Schoeck.de</a> a écrit :</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hello Prof. Geuzaine</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">i have a question to your great tool gmsh:</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Is there any possibility to generate a three-dimensional geometry (with several domains (=different materials) with an external software</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes : we handle STEP, BREP and IGES inputs.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have tried this with freeCAD and exported a brep-file of my geometry but the problem is that common faces of volume bodies in the geometry</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">was saved twice (each belongs to one domain) and so the gmsh' mesh-algorithmus was not able to mesh the domains correctly.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is possible that freecad outputs volumes that have one face in common and that face is duplicated. In this case, our basic 3D mesh</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">actually fails because all volumes are meshed together and this particular situation generates duplicated points. We can imagine to</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">modify the algorithm and mesh series of connected volumes together. Another way is to save volumes separately with freecad, mesh</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">them and merge meshes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Maybe there is another way, generating a 3D-geometry (should be scriptable) and match the domains with material properties so that getdp could solve the problem.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do you have any ideas or hints?</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards from south-germany</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stefan Kremer</span>
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