Ideas for meshing a soft cylindrical finger #4297
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Hi, I have been working with SOFA for some time now. For all my 3D meshes, I generally use Gmsh which has always worked pretty fine. Lately, I have been trying to mesh a new architecture of the soft finger I am developing. Gmsh seems to not be able to mesh the finger and I don't understand why. The "image 1" shows the error I get with Gmsh. It is about intersections of segments and facets which I normally don't have in the CAD project. My finger was first designed in FreeCAD and a step file was extracted which I tried to mesh in Gmsh. I also designed the same finger in Catia and ANSYS APDL. I tried generating a vtk file automatically from the ANSYS mesh with the vtk module in python. The vtk file generated contains wholes as shown in "image 2". If anyone has ever had such an issue and could help, I am listening. I would like to have an advice for any other meshing method/framework I could use to generate a 3D mesh that works in SOFA. IMAGE 1 IMAGE 2 |
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Hi @manueotti You could use the CGAL plugin linking SOFA with CGAL lib. Else about your questions they are indeed very Gmsh-oriented. Could you contact them directly maybe? |
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Hi @manueotti
You could use the CGAL plugin linking SOFA with CGAL lib.
Else about your questions they are indeed very Gmsh-oriented. Could you contact them directly maybe?