[Gmsh] Intersecting volumes, possible?

[Geordie McBain]

2011/9/20 Bjornar Ness <bjornar.ness at gmail.com>:
> I am trying to use gmsh to parameter-script a turbine. This is working great,
> (using functions/loops), but I now face some headache when trying to figure
> out if it is possible to have gmsh combine volumes. Say a sphere and cube
> intersecting midways, I want it to become one object/volume that is meshable.
> Is this possible? For example to extrude a shape into a different shape, and
> the overlapping parts are "removed"?
>
> If this is not possible to do automagically, I think my gmsh companionship
> will come to a early end, since it would take so much more programming and
> even with maby limitations from the gmsh scripting language itself..
>
> Hope this is possible and easy, since I enjoy the program this far!
>
> best regards,
>         Bjørnar

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