[Gmsh] meshing 1D line with only one element, recent version different from earlier!

jean pierre aubry jeanpierre at lamachine.fr
Fri Dec 9 09:21:30 CET 2011


this happens with straight lines
enclosed is a pic of what i mean



Le Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:52:07 +0100,
Fronz Enlaf <fronzenlaf at yahoo.de> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> if I understand you right, then I had a similar problem some days
> ago. My fault was, that I used Splines to connect each two points. By
> using Lines instead the point in the middle were not set any more.
> 
> Am 09.12.2011 07:02, schrieb jean pierre aubry:
> > hello
> >
> > i have a geometry consisting in many 1D elements crossing each
> > other a 90° so as to form something like a fishnet
> > i want only nodes at the crossing points, and i mesh only 1D
> > earlier versions of Gmsh did that perfectly OK, but the very recent
> > ones are adding one node in the middle of each segment
> > even if i specify a Characteristic length longer that the side of
> > the square
> >
> > i know i could use Transfinite on Lines, for some reason i had like
> > not to
> >
> > but what is worse is that on old geometry ( a few month old) is mesh
> > differently as it was and as the solver requires only one element
> > per side of the square it gives unexpected results
> >
> > is there a way to get that right without using Transfinite
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > jean pierre aubry
> >
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