[Gmsh] normals (again)

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Fri Feb 15 19:32:42 CET 2008


John Borchardt wrote:
> Sorry I am looking in the manual and list archives and I still don't
> understand...
> 
> Can you tell me if the default behaviour of gmsh is such that mesh
> element normals are opposite of the surface normals?  Am using version
> 2.0.8.
> 
> E.g., when I mesh the following .geo, the element normals are opposite
> of the surface normal...


I cannot reproduce this on my machine...


> 
> 
> Point(1) = {0,0,0,0.1};
> Point(2) = {1,0,0,0.1};
> Point(3) = {0,1,0,0.1};
> Line(1) = {1,2};
> Line(2) = {2,3};
> Line(3) = {3,1};
> Line Loop(4) = {1,2,3};
> Plane Surface(5) = {4};
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> --John
> 
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