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Dear Johannes ACKVA,<BR>
<BR>
If I well understand, your .med file is a mesh.<BR>
<BR>
Besides, it seems Gmsh can not edit a mesh file or can not convert from a mesh file to a geometry .geo file.<BR>
<BR>
A solution could be to convert your .med file to .msh file. Then, you can use the "Mesh To Geo" open source software to convert the from the .msh file to .geo file. You can download this application on the following web page (1) after a free registration on the following web page (2). This registration will give you a login and a password to download the "MeshToGeo" application<BR>
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(2) registration web page:<BR>
<A HREF="http://dev.artenum.com/projects/MeshToGeo/registration">http://dev.artenum.com/projects/MeshToGeo/registration</A><BR>
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(1) download web page:<BR>
<A HREF="http://dev.artenum.com/projects/MeshToGeo/download">http://dev.artenum.com/projects/MeshToGeo/download</A><BR>
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You will be able to edit the geo file and create a volume and finally generate a volume mesh. To finish, thanks to Gmsh, you can save the 3D mesh file in .med file.<BR>
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So if I summarize:<BR>
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.med mesh file-> .msh mesh file-> .geo geometric file-> manual edition->.geo geometric file-> volume mesh->.med volume mesh<BR>
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You can find in attachement a sample of these operations with the following workflow:<BR>
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test3.med mesh file-> testMesh.msh mesh file generated by Gmsh-> test.geo geometric file generated by "MeshToGeo" application-> manual edition->testMeshModified.geo geometric file-> volume mesh->.med volume mesh generated by Gmsh<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
<BR>
Benjamin Jeanty-Ruard<BR>
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On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 14:13 +0100, gmsh-request@ace20.montefiore.ulg.ac.be wrote:<BR>
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:36:56 +0100<BR>
From: Johannes_ACKVA <<A HREF="mailto:johannes.ackva@code-aster.de">johannes.ackva@code-aster.de</A>><BR>
To: <A HREF="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</A><BR>
Subject: [Gmsh] how fill a 2D-mesh with 3D-elements calling GMSH from<BR>
the shell<BR>
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hello<BR>
<BR>
how can I fill a closed hull of 2D-elements with 3D-elements, by calling<BR>
GMSH from the shell?<BR>
<BR>
I tried this:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">> gmsh MeshTria_2D.med -3 -o quark.med</FONT><BR>
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Info : Running '/opt/gmsh-2.13.1-Linux/bin/gmsh MeshTria_2D.med -3 -o<BR>
quark.med' [Gmsh 2.13.1, 1 node, max. 1 thread]<BR>
Info : Started on Mon Feb 20 09:20:03 2017<BR>
Info : Reading 'MeshTria_2D.med'...<BR>
Info : Reading MED file V3.2.0 using MED library V3.2.0<BR>
Info : Reading 3-D unstructured mesh <<MeshTria_2D>><BR>
Info : Done reading 'MeshTria_2D.med'<BR>
Info : Finalized high order topology of periodic connections<BR>
Info : Meshing 1D...<BR>
Info : Done meshing 1D (8e-06 s)<BR>
Info : Meshing 2D...<BR>
Info : Done meshing 2D (6.91414e-06 s)<BR>
Info : Meshing 3D...<BR>
Info : Done meshing 3D (5e-06 s)<BR>
Info : 8 vertices 24 elements<BR>
Info : Writing 'quark.med'...<BR>
Info : Done writing 'quark.med'<BR>
Info : Stopped on Mon Feb 20 09:20:03 2017<BR>
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but the resulting mesh does not contain any 3D-elements, it is identic<BR>
to the input mesh.<BR>
<BR>
Moreover, I discovered that after loading the 2D-mesh (MeshTria_2D.med)<BR>
into the GUI, the button "3D" in "Mesh" does not create any 3D-elements.<BR>
I fear that a geometry is needed. Or is there a manner to create a<BR>
volume mesh from a 2D-mesh?<BR>
<BR>
Many thanks for your help,<BR>
<BR>
Johannes_ACKVA<BR>
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