How do I get from a .igs to a mesh file format for Elmer?

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Re: How do I get from a .igs to a mesh file format for Elmer?

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Hmmm...
I am not sure that I understand what you mean by "smaller duplicate of the object inside the model". The model consists of two bodies, one inside the other. They share a common face which is duplicated, and this is why meshing in gmsh fails. I am working on a workaround for this problem. For the model we are talking about, I am already able to generate a 3D mesh using my workaround. If Elmergrid would be able to mesh it directly, this would of course be much more elegant...

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Re: How do I get from a .igs to a mesh file format for Elmer?

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Hi

ElmerGUI has the rather severe limitation that it can only mesh one body. So I think that you may still need to resort to Gmsh.

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Re: How do I get from a .igs to a mesh file format for Elmer?

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Thank you for the clarification, Peter.
It's no problem to resort to gmsh as long as it can do the meshing correctly, also in the case of a multiple bodies model in STEP format. But that is exactly what I intend to achieve...

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