[Gmsh] how to prevent gmsh from meshing not compound surfaces

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 31 Jul 2013, at 19:57, Michał Kordy <mikordy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> My mesh definition includes topography, which is inputted into geo file as a number of Ruled Surfaces that are combined into a Compound Surface.
> When I do 2d mesh, gmsh first meshes all the small ruled surfaces and their boundaries and then meses the compound surface.
> It seems as a waste of computational time as the Ruled Surfaces are not needed to be meshed. How to tell gmsh not to mesh them?
> 

Hi Michal - The "compound" feature actually requires an initial mesh to compute a parametrization, on which the new mesh is based. See http://geuz.org/gmsh/#References for more info.


> Thanks for help!
> 
> Cheers
> Michal Kordy
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