[Gmsh] Generate mesh with hexahedron elements?

Geordie McBain gdmcbain at freeshell.org
Tue Jul 28 01:37:25 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Rui Maciel<rui.maciel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Geordie McBain wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Rui Maciel<rui.maciel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is it possible to use gmsh to generate a 3D mesh consisting of hexahedron
>> > elements? If so, how is it done?
>>
>> See demos/hex.geo in the source distribution.
>
> Thanks, Geordie. I've looked into it and indeed gmsh is able to generate
> hexahedron meshes from that data.
>
> Nonetheless, is it possible to generate hexahedron meshes solely from gmsh's
> GUI or is it only possible to achieve that by writing our own .geo file?

Um, yes, I think so, but I'm not much of GUI-user.  I do see there are
tools under Mesh/Define/Transfinite that I think should do what you
want, but I haven't tried them.  Sorry.
>
> Rui Maciel
>
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