<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, David.<br>That solved the problem.<br><br>Can I also uncheck those options when I run gmsh from the command line without GUI? How?<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: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David Colignon <David.Colignon@ulg.ac.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> Jean-Francois Remacle <jean-francois.remacle@uclouvain.be>; gmsh@geuz.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, July 8, 2010 3:57:13 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Gmsh] sphere created in Salome produces empty mesh<br></font><br>
Hi Jan,<br><br>your sphere is so small that it has been automatically removed...<br><br>Go to Tools->Options->Geometry->General and uncheck "Remove small edeges in OCC models" and "Remove small faces in..."<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>-- <br>David Colignon, Ph.D.<br>Collaborateur Logistique du F.R.S.-FNRS<br>CÉCI - Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif<br>ACE - Applied & Computational Electromagnetics<br>Sart-Tilman B28<br>Université de Liège<br>4000 Liège - BELGIQUE<br>Tél: +32 (0)4 366 37 32<br>Fax: +32 (0)4 366 29 10<br><span>WWW: <a target="_blank" href="http://hpc.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/">http://hpc.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/</a></span><br><span>Agenda: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=david.colignon%40gmail.com">http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=david.colignon%40gmail.com</a></span><br><br><br>On 08/07/10 15:25, Jan Schmitz wrote:<br>> 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<br>> as brep.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Jan<br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> *From:* Jean-Francois Remacle <<a ymailto="mailto:jean-francois.remacle@uclouvain.be" href="mailto:jean-francois.remacle@uclouvain.be">jean-francois.remacle@uclouvain.be</a>><br>> *To:* Jan Schmitz <<a ymailto="mailto:schmitz_j@ymail.com" href="mailto:schmitz_j@ymail.com">schmitz_j@ymail.com</a>><br>> *Cc:* <a ymailto="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</a><br>> *Sent:* Thu, July 8, 2010 3:11:38 PM<br>> *Subject:* Re: [Gmsh] sphere created in Salome produces empty mesh<br>><br>> can you send us the brep ?<br>> Le 08-juil.-10 à 12:36,
Jan Schmitz a écrit :<br>><br>>> 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<br>>> 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<br>>> 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>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> gmsh mailing list<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</a> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" 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>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> Prof. Jean-Francois Remacle<br>> Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL)<br>> Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) - Louvain School of Engineering<br>> Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC)<br>> Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME)<br>> Tel : +32-10-472352 -- Mobile :
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