[Gmsh] Gmsh 2.2.5 crashes on use of 2nd order elements (no optimization)

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Roland Tollenaar a écrit :
> Hi Jean-Francois,
>
>> I see no problem here to generate 2nd order elements. Yet, I cannot see 
> Are you telling me that you cannot repeat the crashing?! Are you also 
> using version 2.2.5? I attached my settings because with me the 
> meshing operation crashes.
>

Yes, I cannot, I used

gmsh ~/Desktop/ASSEMBLY\ CASSETE_04.STEP -clscale .3 -degree 2 -2

and the mesh was created without crashing.

The Netgen Optimized optimizes tetrahedral meshes.


>> how you can apply netgen optimizer on your
>> structure : it is only composed of surfaces.
> This is simple to explain. I am not well versed on the internal 
> operation of the netgen optimizer:). May I ask when it does make sense 
> to use the optimizer?
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Jean-François.
>>
>>
>>> Can someone comment on this? Attached is the model.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Roland
>>>
>>>
>>> Ruth V. Sabariego wrote:
>>>> Your model seems to have only lines and points, that's why you 
>>>> don't see a 2D/3D mesh.
>>>> The 1D mesh is done correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Ruth
>>>>
>>>> Roland Tollenaar wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a model which fails to mesh. gmsh says its meshing it 
>>>>> (console) but nothing happens. (0s)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have seen this same behaviour with STL models previously and 
>>>>> simply assumed that gmsh could not handle stl files.
>>>>>
>>>>> However this is a step model of a type that gmsh previously did 
>>>>> mesh well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have attached the model.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Roland
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>>>> Dr. Ir. Ruth V. Sabariego
>>>> University of Liege, Institut Montefiore,
>>>> Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Applied & 
>>>> Computational Electromagnetics (ACE),
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