Not knowing which workbench you use, here is a technique using Part workbench known as " Wilfried's trick ". It is in German, but the pictures should give you the idea. Chrome translated it for me into English, and that's pretty cool too. Thanks. I continue to learn from everyone on this forum, and...
Here is a proposal which uses the outer edge of the model as a guide. Please note that this is not very stable considering the topological naming problem . That's a nice, simply way of doing what I wanted. I just didn't realize you could use the edges as reference on the object to make a path for i...
Attached is the model. I meant to add, but forgot.
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Hopefully, you can make that out. I used a pen to trace where I want the groove on the underside. Following the outside edge, but of course the entire shape is curved.
I tried the setting for Second Order Linear being true, but nothing changed. I also did as you did with using 3D instead of From Shape, with the same min and max mm settings. Still didn't work. The only thing I see different between our two installations is you seem to have Gmsh 4.7.1, and I have 4....
Interesting. I just thought to look at the report view, and it shows this: 13:24:04 Unexpected error when creating mesh: <class 'RuntimeError'> Here is the entire list of messages: 3:24:04 Gmsh FEM mesh run is being started. 13:24:04 Part to mesh: Name --> Body, Label --> Body, ShapeType --> Solid 1...
Here is my FreeCAD version information: OS: Fedora 33 (Workstation Edition) (GNOME/gnome) Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.19.23578 (Git) AppImage Build type: Release Branch: master Hash: 50c3cbf00579dc4941ca743c25720d016b0453ce Python version: 3.8.6 Qt version: 5.12.5...