[Gmsh] Cannot mesh the extrusion of a closed spline

Jean-Francois Remacle jean-francois.remacle at uclouvain.be
Tue Jul 14 10:25:29 CEST 2009


Le 14-juil.-09 à 10:19, Mengda Wu a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
>    I am trying to mesh the extrusion of a closed spline (attached).  
> Only the mesh of the lateral surface is needed, i.e. without the caps.
> But gmsh crashes right away I hit the mesh button. Similar crash  
> occurs with a closed bspline.
>

yes, that's normal : gmsh's native cad modeler does not support  
(yet ?) periodic surfaces.

JFR

>   BTW, the meshing is successful if the closed line is composed of a  
> spline and a line or two splines. Can you help me on this issue?
> I tested this using the stable version 2.3.1 on both Windows and  
> Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Mengda
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