[Gmsh] Fatal error

[Paolo Bocchini]

The error message asks to submit the log in mailing list, and here it is:

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Info    : -------------------------------------------------------
Info    : Gmsh version   : 1.65.0
Info    : Build OS       : CYGWIN_NT-5.1-no-cygwin
Info    : Build options  : GSL TRIANGLE NETGEN TETGEN JPEG PNG ZLIB 
MATHEVAL METIS ANN
Info    : Build date     : Sat May 13 22:46:21 PDT 2006
Info    : Build host     : geuz
Info    : Packager       : geuzaine
Info    : Home directory : C:\DOCUME~1\Paolo\IMPOST~1\Temp/
Info    : Launch date    : Wed Jul 09 10:23:02 2008
Info    : Command line   : C:\Documents and Settings\Paolo\Desktop\gmesh 
165\gmsh.exe
Info    : -------------------------------------------------------
Info    : Computing curvatures
Info    : Reverse engineering surfaces
Info    : Creating search structures
Info    : Creating the ANN search structure
Info    : End classifying 104 edgetags 117 vertextags
Info    : Moving surface mesh into old structure
Info    : Remesh 2D...
Info    : smoothing 104534 points
Info    : 210497 snaps have succeeded , 238 have failed
Info    : Iter=0/10 Tri=209075
Info    : smoothing 144015 points
Info    : 256807 snaps have succeeded , 589 have failed
Info    : Iter=1/10 Tri=288037
Info    : smoothing 146589 points
Info    : 269648 snaps have succeeded , 282 have failed
Info    : Iter=2/10 Tri=293183
Info    : smoothing 107384 points
Info    : 152298 snaps have succeeded , 185 have failed
Info    : Iter=3/10 Tri=214769
Fatal   : Segmentation violation (invalid memory reference)
       : ------------------------------------------------------
       : You have discovered a bug in Gmsh! You may report it
       : by e-mail (together with any helpful data permitting to
       : reproduce it) to <gmsh at geuz.org>
Info    : Writing log file 'C:\DOCUME~1\Paolo\IMPOST~1\Temp/.gmsh-errors'

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The stl file is pretty large (40Mb).

Version 1.63 generates a perfect mesh, on the contrary!

Paolo


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Dr Paolo Bocchini
PhD in Structural Mechanics
BS & MS in Civil Engineering
PE

DISTART Department, University of Bologna (Italy)

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