[Gmsh] Question about interface with Tetgen

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Thu Jan 31 17:58:29 CET 2013


On 05 Nov 2012, at 10:30, Zhanghong Tang <tang at bjut.edu.cn> wrote:

> Dear administrator,
>  
> Thank you very much for provide so powerful mesher.
>  
> I noticed that the Gmsh interfaces with Tetgen. I want to know how does this software interface with Tetgen, can Gmsh import the ‘.poly’ file defined by Tetgen (for example, the attached test.poly)? If can, how to let the Gmsh load ‘.poly’ file and generate quality mesh (the Tetgen will crash to work on this file)? If not, how to define the input geometry file to let the Gmsh create quality mesh for multiple domains?

Gmsh only uses Tetgen to (optionally) create an initial 3D Delaunay mesh from a surface (2D) mesh generated by Gmsh of its CAD model. Gmsh does not handle the .poly files.

>  
> Thanks,
> Zhanghong Tang
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>  
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