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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Arvind,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You can extrude mesh using the Extrude command (see documentation
<a href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Extrusions">here</a>), especially to get hex mesh you might want to use the
<a href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Structured-grids">Layers and Recombine options</a>. I enclose an example of what you can do, let me know if it helped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">De :</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gmsh [mailto:gmsh-bounces@ace20.montefiore.ulg.ac.be]
<b>De la part de</b> arvind iyer<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 15 février 2017 18:12<br>
<b>À :</b> gmsh@onelab.info<br>
<b>Objet :</b> [Gmsh] Extruding 2d mesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">I have a 2d (quad) mesh in .msh format. I wish to extrude this 2d mesh perpendicular to its plane as layers to get a hex mesh. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Is there a way of doing this in gmsh?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Arvind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">================================<br>
Dr. Iyer Arvind Sundaram<br>
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man<br>
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- George Bernard Shaw.<o:p></o:p></p>
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