[Gmsh] Embed Line on Compound Surface And Boolean Operator

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 25 Sep 2017, at 16:55, Clément Blanchard <clement.blanchard at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
> 
> Dear Gmsh team,
> 
> I have to design a cylinder with a patch on its side and a stripe tied to the cylinder by a common edge with the patch, see the attached .geo file. To do that, I tried to use Embed lines, Compound Surface and Boolean Difference but its seems that those tools do not work together very well.

Indeed, this is not supported. Compounds are on the way out, and will be replaced in a future version with a more robust implementation.


> These 5 errors occurred:
> 
> Error   : Could not open file 'debugp.pos'
> Error   : Could not open file 'debugr.pos'
> Error   : Unable to recover the edge 125 (1/5) on GEdge 11 (on GFace 11)
> Error   : Could not open file 'wrongmesh.pos'
> Error   : Could not open file 'wrongparam.pos'
> 
> Is there a way to deal with this?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Best regards,
> Clément Blanchard
> <mnwe.geo>
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