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Thanks Fernando,<div><br></div><div>That worked like a charm! </div><div><br></div><div># However, I could not read the exported file back in to Gmsh. But that's not a problem since I need only the node/element coordinates. <br><div><br></div><div class="mb_sig"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><div style="font-size: 10pt;display: inline" class="gmail_default"></div>Regards,<br>Shamsul Arefin<br></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><font face="IcoFont" size="2"><span style="font-family: icofont;">ph: 017655441319</span></font></span></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On Wed 11 Oct 10:09:26 pm, Fernando Lorenzo <felorenzo@att.net> wrote:</p>If you save your mesh as Tochnog format, you will only get the tetrahedron or hexahedron if that is what you choose. <div><br></div><div>Your file will be name.dat. It will have a lot of details on how to set up the input file for tochnog, but you will find all the nodes and connectivities.</div><div><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Fernando Lorenzo<div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div><br>On Oct 11, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Shamsul Arefin <<a href="mailto:mail.shanto@gmail.com">mail.shanto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="min-width: 500px"><div><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: georgia;color: #000000">How to mesh only the volume(s) and not the lines, surfaces etc?<div><br></div><div>In my project I have imported a step-file of a bearing race (imagine a hollow cylinder). I want meshes on the volume only. The other geometric entities should be ignored. How do I make that happen?</div><div><br></div><div>Normally if I use the '3D' mesh from the command tree, i find elements on the line, surface and volumes. Whereas, I don't want any 2D elements rather only 3D tetrahedron was expected. </div><div><br></div><div>1# I have tried to delete the geometry items, the edges, and failed. >>> idea was to keep only the volume entity in the CAD and mesh only the volume.</div><div><br></div><div>2# i tried to define physical entities of the volumes, to mesh only that <span style="font-size: 13.3333px">physical entity, and failed</span>. </div><div> a. I could not perform a selection (in coding) only for the volume elements.. </div><div> b. even if I could succeed to select the volumes, I don't find a Meshing command to mesh only a particular physical entity. <br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="mb_sig"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><div style="font-size: 10pt;display: inline" class="gmail_default"></div>Regards,<br>Shamsul Arefin<br></span><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="min-width: 500px"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>gmsh mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info">gmsh@onelab.info</a></span><br><span><a href="http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh">http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div>
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