<html><body><div style="font-family: sans serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear all,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I am trying to mesh a composite material made of paste and grains.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Since I have to do some Boolean operation on a 3D volume of composite I tried to use the occ factory.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>At the end of the day I need a continuous mesh where paste elements of the mesh belong to a paste physical group and grains elements belong to an other physical group.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>In the attached script I first create a cylinder and two grains. </div><div>Using a cut I was able to obtain a mesh with all the elements belonging to the paste.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Using a fuse I was able to obtain a mesh with all the elements belonging to the grains.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Unfortunately, it seems that the two meshes are separated.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I tried to fuse them to obtain a continuous mesh but I am not sure it works fine and that it is the proper method.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Any advice ?<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Regards<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">-- <br></div><div>Frédéric Dubois, PhD, Eng.<br>---<br>Directeur adjoint du LMGC.<br>Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil - CNRS/UM<br>cc 048, 163 rue Auguste Broussonnet, 34090 Montpellier<br>http://www.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr/~dubois<br>Tel: 33/0 467144984<br>Mobile: 33/0 635490843<br></div></div></body></html>