<div dir="ltr">Ah I see. I didn't know you could look at the code in a text editor to fix errors. Thank you!<br><br>-Alejandro<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Matthias.Zenker@erbe-med.com" target="_blank">Matthias.Zenker@erbe-med.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">there were several problems in your geometry:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The surfaces were defined multiple times, and were overlapping. You need to define the heater loop as hole of your square surface.</span></p>


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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The characteristic length of 1 was very small, given the length of 1000 of your square. That made gmsh crash for me. I changed it to 5, and 50 for the outer
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Minor: The lines of the heater loop are duplicated – the coherence command takes care of that.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">I have attached a fixed geo file that works for me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">HTH,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Matthias</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Alejandro Ceballos [mailto:<a href="mailto:aceballos@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">aceballos@berkeley.edu</a>]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 7. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">November 2013 19:09<br>
<b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" target="_blank">gmsh@geuz.org</a><br>
<b>Betre</b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">ff:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> [Gmsh] Unable to mesh this complex geometry. Gmsh crashes</span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello everyone, I started using gmsh this week to create a mesh of the geometry attached below. I cannot get this to mesh, as the program crashes upon attempting to do so. What is wrong with my geometry that
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Alejandro</p>
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