<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hi, I do sometimes <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">such a thing like this:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">1) I create a "skin" - with finite elements<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">2) I convert the triangles into the geometry<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">3) I convert a volume mesh<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">An examples is in the attachement,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">best regards<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Elek<br><br>-- <br>Dr Eligiusz Postek, MSc., PhD., DSc.<br>Department of Computational Science<br>Institute of Fundamental Technological<br>Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences<br><br>ul. Pawinskiego 5B, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland<br>tel. +48 22 827 46 92<br>mob. +48 785 385 496<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Lanz Natanael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lanz@iwf.mavt.ethz.ch" target="_blank">lanz@iwf.mavt.ethz.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m asking for help, as I didn’t find a solution for my problem after trying different work arounds. As nobody seems to reply on similar topics I just try it one more time ;-)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I want to do:<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Import a number of surfaces from a STL file (see the attached File “Facegear.stl”)<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Include a number of points in a certain surface number, to be able to change the mesh size (refine the mesh) in the area of those points by adopting the characteristic length of these points<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Creating the surface boundary mesh by remeshing the 2D surface with the included points<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>Creating a volume mesh from the surface mesh<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I attached the STL and GEO files I used for meshing as well as the resulting MSH file.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All comments and any help concerning STL and local mesh refinement are very very appriciated. Thanks in advance.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Natanael<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d" lang="DE-CH">Natanael Lanz<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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