I had tacitly assumed it would create the internal numbering from an
arbitrary numbering. I now reordered it and it works fine!
Thanks a lot for your help, the issue is resolved.

Christian



On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Wolfgang Bangerth
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The grid it creates looks reasonable and has the outer shape it is
>> supposed to have. However, if I run this code, which shows a line for
>> each cell with boundary indicators of all faces,
>> I mostly get lines like the following:
>>
>>         0       0       255     255     255     255
>>
>> In particular, if I do a grep -v 0, I realize that there is no element
>> without a 0 assigned face. In other words, according to this
>> triangulation all cells have a face on the outer boundary, which is
>> clearly not the way it should be.
>
> deal.II tries to match all faces of cells with faces of other cells. If it
> can't find a matching face, then it marks it as external. My best guess is
> that you got the numbering of vertices in each cell wrong (e.g. in counter
> clockwise sense, rather than lexicographic, if this were in 2d). You can check
> this by just creating a single cell and plotting it in gnuplot -- if the
> numbering is wrong you'll see that it is distorted.
>
> Best
>  W.
>
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