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It works! Now I can easily identify the parts and boundaries by checking numbers assigned to names which I can see in salome. My first problem (issues with displaying) is solved.

1. If I understand correctly, the solver knows how the bodies look like but the hard part is to assign correct materials to the bodies as it's not clear in GUI which is what. 2. How could it happen and how to determine if the problem exist? The mesh was created in salome with gmsh from one "par...

I can't see the dielectric between copper parts. Regarding the instruction in GetStartedElmer, I didn't use "Face groups separated by sharp edges" in salome and I've got only boundary conditions on surface of copper parts. I've just tried making the Face groups but there were hundreds of t...

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Hi, I'm trying to simulate capacitance of copper plane on PCB. I've already got some results which looks ok but I'm not sure I do it right. Below is description of what I did. 1. First step was to export gerber file to svg, then do some cleanup in inkscape (including saving as png and converting bac...