Okay, I see how to modify the mesh size by editing variable in the.geo file, reload geometry in the GUI, and then rebuild the mesh.
Thank you so much. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geordie McBain Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:34 PM To: Rudin, Andrew Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Gmsh] Controlling Mesh Size in GUI 2011/12/13 Rudin, Andrew <[email protected]>: > I'm new to Gmsh and I'm trying to learn the basics from the GUI interface. > I'm trying to play with building a 2-D mesh on a simple box and then > inspect the output as I change mesh parameters. I'm trying to > manipulate the average size of each triangle in the mesh, but the output is > not changing. > Here's some of the things I've tried. > > -Open 2.5 GUI > -Add 4 points at [0,0], [100,0], [100,100], and [0, 100] -Draw lines > between the points to create a square -Create planar surface from > lines. > -Create 2D mesh by going to Mesh->2D > -a basic mesh is created, average triange area appears to be about > 1 square units of a 10,000 square unit box > > Here's the problem. Now I want to control the size and dicate every > triangles area should be about 100 square units. > > -Set mesh 'element size factor' to 100 by going to > Tools->Options->Mesh->Change element size factor to 100, then on the > Tools->Options->Mesh->main > Gmsh GUI go to Mesh->2D to rebuild > > After this the mesh does not seem to resize to have bigger triangles Hello. I'm sure there is a way to do this in the GUI, but I only really use the script input myself; here's how to do it that way. Running the attached size.geo produces 28 elements, then editing the first line to reduce lc to 10 and then 1 produces instead 286 and 26900 elements. _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
