[Gmsh] holes intersect boundary

[David Colignon]

Hi Nico,

Gmsh is not a solid modeler and cannot automatically compute the intersection between surfaces and/or volumes. You have 
to manually compute and define the intersection surfaces (or use a real solid modeler, export the geometry in BREP or 
STEP format and import it in Gmsh).

Regards,

Dave

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On 05/09/12 18:25, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> PS. The same holds true if two cavities intersect.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just played around with t5.geo which carves some ball-shaped holes
>> in a sample.
>> What I would like to do is to create some holes which may intersect
>> with the boundary such that, for example, a half-ball is cut out.
>> While it seems to be no problem to create the geo file, the 3D meshing
>> algorithm won't work: It only provides a mesh on the boundary if one
>> of the cavities intersects with the boundary.
>>
>> Is there a workaround for this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nico
>
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