[Gmsh] Two overlapping spheres

Zenker, Dr. Matthias Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com
Fri Apr 5 12:21:40 CEST 2013


Hi Christophe,

since you are working on "real" CAD routines: Do you also plan to implement a possibility to detect and merge duplicated surfaces (including partial overlaps) on CAD level? The "cut and merge faces" does not work in quite some cases...

Matthias


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. April 2013 13:15
> An: Songting Luo
> Cc: gmsh at geuz.org
> Betreff: Re: [Gmsh] Two overlapping spheres
>
>
> On 27 Mar 2013, at 00:40, Songting Luo <luosongting at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I want to generate a 3D mesh for two overlapping spheres.  How can I
> > combine these two spheres as one single object (as a union), and generate
> the mesh?  Please let me know, thank you very much.
> >
>
> Gmsh's internal small CAS engine does not compute boolean operations;
> you'll need to either create the geometry directly (computing the
> intersections yourself), or use a CAD modeler (e.g. Freecad) to create the
> geometry and export e.g. in STEP.
>
> We are working toward integrating "real" CAD creation routines in Gmsh, but
> it's not ready yet for general use.
>
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Luo
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> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
> http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine
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