Hi Andre - Could you try again with a recent build and tell us if things 
improved?

Thanks,

Christophe

On 31 Oct 2012, at 06:18, Andre Nicolle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear gmsh user group
> 
> I have been struggling with meshing a stl file of a human mesh. The stl 
> surface is in good shape with a closed surface which when loaded into gmsh 
> and meshed using the procedure outlined in 
> https://geuz.org/trac/gmsh/wiki/STLRemeshing forms a three-dimensional mesh. 
> Unfortunately the tetrahedron element quality is very poor. On further 
> investigation we found that this was caused by poor quality elements on the 
> 2D surface after the surface was remeshed. We tried using  Mesh.Algorithm: 1 
> = MeshAdapt, 2=Automatic, 5=Delaunay, 6=Frontal and found that in general 
> Frontal gave us the best elements which were all very good quality except on 
> the interface between the multilevel mesh partitions.  Information on the 
> partition stage of 2-D meshing is given below.
> 
> Attached is a picture showing the line-up of poor quality elements around the 
> waist of the human. Nearly all the other 2-D triangular elements have a mesh 
> quality indicator gamma > 0.5, however elements on theinterface have gamma 
> approximately 0.03 which we believe is where the 3-D mesh problem is starting 
> from.
> 
> Could somebody give us some advice on how best to solve this problem as I 
> imagine it is a mistake on our implementation. If further information is 
> required please let me know what would be helpful to diagnose the problem.
> 
> Any help would be gratefully received
> 
> Andre
> 
> gmsh version 2.6.1
> 
> Info    : Meshing surface 200 (Compound surface, MeshAdapt)
> Warning : Wrong topology: Genus=0, Nb boundaries=0, AR=1
> Info    : -----------------------------------------------------------
> Info    : --- Split surface 200 in 2 parts with Multilevel Mesh partitioner
> Info    : Building graph...
> Info    : Partitioning graph...
> Info    : Launching Chaco graph partitioner
> Info    : Done partitioning graph
> Info    : *** Mesh partition: level (1-0) is ZERO-GENUS (AR=5, NB=1)
> Info    : *** Mesh partition: level (1-1) is ZERO-GENUS (AR=4, NB=1)
> Info    : Multiscale Partition SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED : 2 parts (3.26 s)
> Info    : *** Starting parametrize compounds:
> Info    : Parametrize Compound Line (2) = 1 discrete edge
> Info    : Parametrize Compound Surface (203) = 201 discrete face
> Info    : Parametrizing surface 203 with 'convex map'
> 
> 
> Warning : Mesh generation error summary
> Warning :     1 warning
> Warning :     0 errors
> Warning : Check the full log for details
> 
> 
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Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
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