[Gmsh] 3D volume as tetrahedra only

[Keith Sloan]

I am new to Gmsh and trying to reproduce the following but still seeing 
triangles on the surface.

Can I check that when it mentions sphere demo it is talking about 
sphere-discrete.geo

// merge a surface mesh (any format will work: .msh, .unv, etc.)

Merge "sphere-surf.stl";

// add a geometrical volume

Surface Loop(1) = {1};
Volume(1) = {1};
Physical Volume('tets') = {2};

// use this to force a coarse mesh inside
//Mesh.CharacteristicLengthExtendFromBoundary = 0;
//Mesh.CharacteristicLengthMax = 0.5;

I have also tried
Physical Volume('tets') = {1};

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Mark Starnes mark.starnes at fttech.co.uk
Tue May 1 10:42:09 CEST 2012
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Hi Bartek,

Yes:  use a Physical Group definition in your .geo
file, like this:

Physical Volume('tets') = {2};

where `2' in this case would be the volume number
assigned to your tetrahedra and 'tets' is a name I
made up.

Adding a `Physical Group' definition results in
only the groups specified as being physical being
exported.

Search for, `Physical' in the manual:

http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html

Best regards,

Mark.


On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:15:31AM +0200, Bartek Grychtol wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm new to gmsh, just seeing if it can do what I need.
 > I have a surface mesh in an stl file. I need to create a nice
 > tetrahedral volume mesh,
 > but without changing anything on the surface.
 > The sphere demo does exactly that.
 > However, the generated .msh file contains both triangles (for the
 > surface) and
 > tetrahedra (for the volume inside).
 > Is there a way (a command or file format) to have the complete mesh
 > represented as tetrahedra only?
 >
 > Best wishes,
 >
 > Bartek
 >
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