[Gmsh] Units used in STEP and MSH

Jean-Francois Remacle jean-francois.remacle at uclouvain.be
Fri Sep 25 09:04:33 CEST 2009


Le 24-sept.-09 à 16:08, Bastien Gorissen a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I'm running into a problem when merging a STEP file with a MSH file.
> Both are supposed to relate to the same geometry, which is roughly a
> half-sphere with radius "50", but GMSH loads the two files using
> apparently using different units. The STEP ends up with a radius of
> "50000", as if GMSH understands the MSH units as mm but the STEP  
> ones as
> meters.
>
> Is there a simple way to correct that ? Except calling scaleMesh() ?
>

scalemesh is "for my opinion" the only option

JF


> Thanks in advance,
> -Bastien Gorissen
>
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