[Gmsh] Unable to mesh this complex geometry. Gmsh crashes

[Alejandro Ceballos]

Ah I see. I didn't know you could look at the code in a text editor to fix
errors. Thank you!

-Alejandro


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias <
Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> there were several problems in your geometry:
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> ·         The surfaces were defined multiple times, and were overlapping.
> You need to define the heater loop as hole of your square surface.
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> ·         The characteristic length of 1 was very small, given the length
> of 1000 of your square. That made gmsh crash for me. I changed it to 5, and
> 50 for the outer surface points.
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> ·         Minor: The lines of the heater loop are duplicated – the
> coherence command takes care of that.
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> I have attached a fixed geo file that works for me.
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> HTH,
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> Matthias
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> *Von:* Alejandro Ceballos [mailto:aceballos at berkeley.edu]
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 7. November 2013 19:09
> *An:* gmsh at geuz.org
> *Betre**ff:* [Gmsh] Unable to mesh this complex geometry. Gmsh crashes
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> Hello everyone, I started using gmsh this week to create a mesh of the
> geometry attached below. I cannot get this to mesh, as the program crashes
> upon attempting to do so. What is wrong with my geometry that is crashing
> gmsh?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Alejandro
>
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