[Gmsh] Hollow Sphere Surfaces

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 03 Sep 2011, at 14:26, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:

> 
> On 02 Sep 2011, at 18:13, Issoufou Nouhou wrote:
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>>  Hi there,
>> 
>> I am trying to use GMSH to create a HOLLOW SPHERE WITH A THICKNESS OF 0.09.
>> 
>> Couldyou tell how to do the MESHING TO OBTAIN  A HOMOGENEOUS SURFACE AND TELL WHAT I AM DOING WRONG 
>> 
> 
> As explained in a previous message, trimmed surfaces are not well supported in Gmsh--you should use a real CAD modeler to create your geometry, export it e.g. as STEP, then mesh it in Gmsh.
> 
> Attached you'll find a fix for your particular problem (add "In Sphere" in your surface definition). This fix will only work for transformed surfaces with tomorrow's nightly build.
> 

And here's the file...

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> Hope this helps,
> Ch.
> 
>> PLEASE?
>> 
>> when i exported the .msh file unto FEBio, i crashed because of the meshing, included the thickness amongst other warnings
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>> i attached the files.Graeme
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>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Nouhou
>> 
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>> Issoufou Nouhou
>>  Msc Student
>> University of Montréal
>> Canada
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University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine