[Gmsh] visualization problem ?

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 07 Feb 2016, at 19:25, walter steffe <walter.steffe at alice.it> wrote:
> 
> The attached file is a mesh generated by Gmsh library linked to EmCAD.
> The mesh associated with Elementary Entity Surface number 4 (and also e
> few other faces) is incomplete.
> This surface mesh should copied from an other surface. EmCAD makes use
> of GFace::setMeshMaster to enforce this condition. The affine
> transformation relating the two faces is a rotation about the cylinder
> axis.
> 
> It is quite strange that the original face is properly meshed while the
> copy is not. It is even more strange that other 18 copies of the
> same original face (with different rotation angles) are properly meshed
> while only 3 faces are incomplete.
> 
> I do not understand well the mesh file format but I think that the slave
> face meshes should just refer to the master face and the related
> transformation.
> 
> So I do not understand why there is such big difference between master
> and slave meshes. Is it a visualization problem ?.
> 

I don't think so: the actual mesh is indeed incomplete. The problem is most probably in the generation of the slave mesh. Quite a bit of work has been going on on periodic meshes in recent releases: I would try with the latest stable release to see if the problem persists.



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