[Gmsh] swept volume using triangulared surface mesh

[Mark Smith]

Hi Gmsh users,
The .geo file below produces a transfinite mesh of prism elements.

Mesh.Smoothing =1; //need this < 2 so get uniform bias in BL across the surfaces

Blays=3;
w=4;
l=6;

Point(1) = {0, 0, 0};
Point(2) = {1, 0, 0};
Point(3) = {1, 1, 0};
Point(4) = {0, 2, 0};
Point(5) = {0.2, 0.2, 0.25};
Point(6) = {0.8, 0.2, 0.25};
Point(7) = {0.8, 0.8, 0.25};
Point(8) = {0.2, 1.5, 0.25};
Line(1) = {1, 2};
Line(2) = {2, 3};
Line(3) = {3, 4};
Line(4) = {4, 1};
Line(5) = {5, 6};
Line(6) = {6, 7};
Line(7) = {7, 8};
Line(8) = {8, 5};
Line(9) = {2, 6};
Line(10) = {3, 7};
Line(11) = {4, 8};
Line(12) = {1, 5};
Line Loop(13) = {5, 6, 7, 8};
Plane Surface(1) = {13};
Line Loop(15) = {3, 11, -7, -10};
Plane Surface(2) = {15};
Line Loop(17) = {6, -10, -2, 9};
Plane Surface(3) = {17};
Line Loop(19) = {5, -9, -1, 12};
Plane Surface(4) = {19};
Line Loop(21) = {4, 1, 2, 3};
Plane Surface(6) = {21};
Line Loop(23) = {8, -12, -4, 11};
Plane Surface(5) = {23};
Surface Loop(25) = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6};
Volume(1) = {25};
Transfinite Line {10, 11, 12, 9} = Blays+1 Using Progression 1.3;
Transfinite Surface {2};
Transfinite Surface {3};
Transfinite Surface {4};
Transfinite Surface {5};
Recombine Surface {2, 3, 4, 5};
Transfinite Line {5, 7, 3, 1} = w+1 Using Progression 1;
Transfinite Line {4, 2, 6, 8} = l+1 Using Progression 1;
Transfinite Surface {1};
Transfinite Surface {6};
Transfinite Volume {1};

Picture 1) It produces a surface mesh on surface 1 like so
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Picture 2) If I comment out Transfinite Surface {1}; and Transfinite Surface {6}; in the geo file I get a surface mesh on surface 1 like so
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Now this surface mesh has better statistics than the transfinite one, but as expected the 3D meshing fails.
Is there a way to copy with morphing, the mesh on surface 1 to surface 6 and produce a 3D mesh of surface 1  swept to surface 6 resulting in an all prism 3D mesh?

Thanks in advance.
Mark

Mark Smith
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