<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Arefin,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All you have to do is a "save mesh” which will save the mesh in gmsh format (name.msh) so that you can read it back with gmsh, and save it as tochnog format (name.dat) which will allow you to do what you need by saving only the 3D elements. The two files will represent the same mesh!<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Shamsul Arefin <<a href="mailto:mail.shanto@gmail.com" class="">mail.shanto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia;" class="">
Thanks Fernando,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That worked like a charm! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""># 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 class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="mb_sig"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif" class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt;display: inline" class="gmail_default"></div>Regards,<br class="">Shamsul Arefin<br class=""></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif" class=""><font face="IcoFont" size="2" class=""><span style="font-family: icofont;" class="">ph: 017655441319</span></font></span></div>
</div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px"><p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;" class="">On Wed 11 Oct 10:09:26 pm, Fernando Lorenzo <<a href="mailto:felorenzo@att.net" class="">felorenzo@att.net</a>> 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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Fernando Lorenzo<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div class=""><br class="">On Oct 11, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Shamsul Arefin <<a href="mailto:mail.shanto@gmail.com" class="">mail.shanto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" style="min-width: 500px" class=""><div class=""><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia;" class="">How to mesh only the volume(s) and not the lines, surfaces etc?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2# i tried to define physical entities of the volumes, to mesh only that <span style="font-size: 13.3333px" class="">physical entity, and failed</span>. </div><div class=""> a. I could not perform a selection (in coding) only for the volume elements.. </div><div class=""> 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 class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="mb_sig"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif" class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt;display: inline" class="gmail_default"></div>Regards,<br class="">Shamsul Arefin<br class=""></span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="min-width: 500px" class=""><div class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________</span><br class=""><span class="">gmsh mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:gmsh@onelab.info" class="">gmsh@onelab.info</a></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh" class="">http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh</a></span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div>
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