[Gmsh] Problem with extrusion

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 27 Nov 2018, at 13:26, Alessandro Vicini <alessandro.vicini at sitael.com> wrote:
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> Ok, thank you, in the meantime I had found that out.  From the manual I was supposing that should work also with the built-in geometry Kernel…

Indeed; it's just a particular case that the built-in kernel does not handle...

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> Da: Christophe Geuzaine [mailto:cgeuzaine at uliege.be] 
> Inviato: martedì 27 novembre 2018 13:25
> A: Alessandro Vicini
> Cc: gmsh at onelab.info
> Oggetto: Re: [Gmsh] Problem with extrusion
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> On 27 Nov 2018, at 11:17, Alessandro Vicini <alessandro.vicini at sitael.com> wrote:
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> Considering the attached geo file, why there is no surface generated by the extrusion?  Thank you.
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> The built-in CAD engine is quite limited for the extrusion of curves: it will not create surfaces if the origin and the destination curve are the only ones bounding the resulting surface.
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> You can use SetFactory("OpenCASCADE"); for such geometries:
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> Regards,
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> Alessandro
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