[Gmsh] Cannot mesh the extrusion of a closed spline

[Mengda Wu]

Thanks for the explanation.

It will be great if you can suggest some walkaround. Maybe define two
splines and make their connection
smooth? Is that possible?

Thanks,
Mengda

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Jean-Francois Remacle <
jean-francois.remacle at uclouvain.be> wrote:

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