[Gmsh] reminder ..

Christophe Geuzaine geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu
Fri Nov 26 23:32:43 CET 2004


Nacho Andres wrote:
> Dear all ..  dear Cristophe,
> sometime ago I sent an e-mail asking for help for a problem that I am
> trying to solve.
> I basically need to build an sphere with many volume holes starting on
> its surface and continuing a little deeper .. 
> Defining the sphere and then substracting the volumes gives coplanarity
> problems when meshing ...

Does the Netgen algorithm have the same problem?



> Another possibility is first declaring the outer surface with the gaps
> and then start declaring the volume step by step .. but .. if I generate
> the external sphere in quadrants, some of the meridians intersect the
> holes .. so I also get problems ..
> Do you have any suggestion? Any hint is most welcome! otherwise, my only
> alternative seems brute force (i.e., generating pieces and tailor
> everything ..
> 
> Please, this is really a bottleneck .. Many thanks in advance,
> Nacho
> 
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