[Gmsh] Generate mesh with hexahedron elements?

Rui Maciel rui.maciel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 01:20:04 CEST 2009


Geordie McBain wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Rui Maciel<rui.maciel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to use gmsh to generate a 3D mesh consisting of hexahedron
> > elements? If so, how is it done?
>
> See demos/hex.geo in the source distribution.

Thanks, Geordie. I've looked into it and indeed gmsh is able to generate 
hexahedron meshes from that data. 

Nonetheless, is it possible to generate hexahedron meshes solely from gmsh's 
GUI or is it only possible to achieve that by writing our own .geo file?


Rui Maciel