[Gmsh] Error : Could not restore all edges/faces ....

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote:
> Hello
> 
> While "playing" with gmsh (1.41.0) I got this problem when I tried to get a 3d 
> mesh of a cube. 
> 
> .....
> Info : Final check: 11 missing edges, 15 missing faces
> Info : ===================================================
>      : Surface coherence results (number of intersections)
>      : 58 EV, 14 EE, 23 FV, 13 FF, 1 FE, 0 EEE, 0 EEEE
>      : ===================================================
> Error : Could not restore all edges/faces
> Error : Surface recovery failed (send a bug report with the geo file to 
> <gmsh at geuz.org>!)
> Mesh 3D... (final)
> Nod=70 Elm=329
> Vol(2.74427) Conv(3.4641e+11->0.8)
> .....
> 
> By changing the length from 0.5 to 0.7 I managed to solve my "problem", but 
> perhaps this is a good test case...

It is... The 3D algorithm still has some problems when the 
characteristic length is relatively large compared to the size of the 
object.

Christophe

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