[Gmsh] Fwd: Re: Extract/highlight geometry edges

[billy at dem.uminho.pt]

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    Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:14:45 +0000
    From: billy at dem.uminho.pt
Reply-To: billy at dem.uminho.pt
 Subject: Re: [Gmsh] Extract/highlight geometry edges
      To: Christophe Geuzaine <cag32 at case.edu>


Hi,

I did that but it translated the stl. Is this a bug?

Billy.

Quoting Christophe Geuzaine <cag32 at case.edu>:

> billy at dem.uminho.pt wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a way to extract edges from a mesh? This because I want to include
> the
> > edges of the geometry in the post-processing view but the lines used to
> > construct the geometry look too confusing (to build the geometry I need
> more
> > lines than just the edges). 
> > 
> 
> You could save the surface mesh as an STL file (File->Save as->STL) and 
> reload it: this will detect the edges. (You can change the STL options 
> and use 'Update edges' in the mesh menu to refine the angle threshold.)
> 
> 
> > Billy.
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> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Christophe Geuzaine
> Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Mathematics
> http://www.case.edu/artsci/math/geuzaine
> 



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