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</style></div><div>Good afternoon,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>May I write to you concerning my problem:</div><div> I made a packing a spherical beads (representing a porous material) with a discrete element software (yade).</div><div>So I can have all the coordinates of the centres and radii of the spherical beads.</div><div>I want to save the geometry of this porous medium into a .stl file for further processing (in comsol).</div><div>In order to do that, I was advised to use gmsh; can you explain me how I can proceed ??  </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your reply,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Best wishes</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Vincent</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">






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