[Gmsh] Ensuring conformal meshing when using geomtry from Freecad

[Juan E. Sanchez]

Cool,

Thank you!

On 4/9/18 5:21 AM, Jeremy Theler wrote:
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> On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 12:35 -0500, Juan E. Sanchez wrote:
>> Hello Jeremy,
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>> Is my understanding correct that there would only be one material volume
>> per brep file?  I would use freecad, but it seems painful to try to
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> no
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>> import one brep per material into gmsh, and then attempt to get gmsh to
>> merge the interfaces.  I thought Coherence might not work very well, and
>> performing a boolean fragments operation on multiple brep volumes might
>> not work either.
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> you can either create a compsolid in freecad and then export just the compound object as brep. Each individual feature will be considered a different volume.
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> Or you can select all the individual features you want to export as different volumes, export them as brep and "Coherence" them after merging in Gmsh.
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> jeremy
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