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netgen example

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I compiled a version of FC with netgen from debian sid. The compilation worked but I have no idea if netgen works...
If I create a mesh out of a cube, I get only one tetrahedron, which is a little bit too less I guess :mrgreen:
If I set the fineness to "very fine", it creates more tetrahedra but the mesh is not complete.
gmsh on the other hand produces a complete mesh.
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Sometimes the result looks broken too, so I guess the nodes are not connected correctly:
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So the question is, is there any netgen example which should work?

As I read here https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... en#p285927 netgen seems to be broken at the moment.

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OS: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.16206 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 763c2b22fed224eae1e767de1f7b8f2f703ba683
Python version: 3.7.3rc1
Qt version: 5.11.3
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Austria (de_AT)

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ii  libnglib-6.2.1804:amd64 6.2.1804+dfsg1-3 amd64        Automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator shared library
ii  libnglib-dev            6.2.1804+dfsg1-3 amd64        Automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator development files
ii  netgen                  6.2.1804+dfsg1-3 amd64        Automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator
ii  netgen-headers          6.2.1804+dfsg1-3 amd64        Automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator internal headers
ii  python3-netgen          6.2.1804+dfsg1-3 amd64        Automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator Python 3 bindings
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Re: netgen example

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I remembered such problems but in my eyes it should be solved in the internal and external smesh packages. Which smesh did you use?
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Which netgen did you use? From where did you download the source? Which cmake command did you use to compile netgen. Which cmake command did you use to compile FreeCAD with netgen. Some weeks ago I spent hours on compiling FreeCAD with netgen on Debian Buster, no success.

If I would have some commands I may try again too.
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bernd wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:39 pm Which netgen did you use? From where did you download the source? Which cmake command did you use to compile netgen. Which cmake command did you use to compile FreeCAD with netgen.
He stated it was with the Netgen package from Debian Unstable which is also currently the one in Buster, so only the last question should be needed.
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kkremitzki wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:48 pm
bernd wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:39 pm Which netgen did you use? ...
He stated it was with the Netgen package from Debian Unstable which is also currently the one in Buster, ...
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For me it works with:
OS: Windows 7 SP 1 (6.1)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.16206 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 763c2b22fed224eae1e767de1f7b8f2f703ba683
Python version: 3.7.2
Qt version: 5.12.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)
The netgen version is 6.2.

The output of the mesh in the Python console is:
========================== Dump contents of mesh ==========================

1) Total number of nodes: 26
2) Total number of edges: 12
3) Total number of faces: 12
4) Total number of polygons: 0
5) Total number of volumes: 5
6) Total number of polyhedrons: 0

7) Total number of linear edges: 0
8) Total number of linear faces: 0
9) Total number of linear volumes: 0

10) Total number of quadratic edges: 12
11) Total number of quadratic faces: 12
11.1) Number of quadratic triangles: 12
11.2) Number of quadratic quadrangles: 0
12) Total number of quadratic volumes: 5
12.1) Number of quadratic hexahedrons: 0
12.2) Number of quadratic tetrahedrons: 5
12.3) Number of quadratic prisms: 0
12.4) Number of quadratic pyramids: 0

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Btw, the two meshes inside your projects are empty. Only when creating a new mesh with default values I get the above mesh.
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Re: netgen example

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wmayer wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:03 am Btw, the two meshes inside your projects are empty. Only when creating a new mesh with default values I get the above mesh.
Ah yes, I deleted them before uploading - the usual practice, which makes no sense in this situation :oops:
bernd wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:39 pm Which cmake command did you use to compile FreeCAD with netgen.
I used this debian package description: https://github.com/reox/FreeCAD_gitpack ... bian/rules
Here is a script to build a daily-build from scratch: https://gist.github.com/reox/522922a1a6 ... edd484f48f
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Re: netgen example

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Hi , Im pretty new to the Forum and this will be my first Question anyways. The other Issues I could find and solve mostly on my own.
I'm using Linux Mint and installed Freecad Version 0.17 and 0.18 on my Linux. Both are without Netgen in the FEM Workbench.
I found by using the forum this theme seems to be the most recent one.
How far is the progress in making Netgen avaliable for Linux Distributions (Mint) for Freecad?
I m not a programmer, so I get lost in trying to implement such things by following forum-discussions :? . Sometimes i can but in this case not.

Thank for a Hint in a promissing direction or may already a solution.

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Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13541 (Git) AppImage
Build type: None
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Python version: 2.7.6
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

OS: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.14555 (Git shallow)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.18.2)
Hash: dbb4cc6415bac848a294f03b80f65e888d531742
Python version: 2.7.15
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OCC version: 7.3.0
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Netgen mesher has been available for FEM and Mesh WB for years. It is not a matter of developing, since it is developed already. It is a matter of compiling Netgen and compiling FreeCAD with Netgen.

BTW: If you really would like to work with FreeCAD FEM you should consider to word with 0.19dev version of FreeCAD.
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I compiled a new version including flatmesh from the meshdesign wb. There you also have the option to create meshes with netgen.
I saw that there the mesh looks good, while in FEM, the Mesh is broken.
Which brings me back to the question: does netgen currently work in FEM?
Is this just a wrong representation of the mesh?

As wmayer said, it should work - so what is wrong with my version?

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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (i3/i3)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.17089 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: d7b6d4dba9d8467886b79927ad8addb7d2fed1fa
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.11.3
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Austria (de_AT)
netgen 6.2.1804+dfsg1-3

And I used these compiler flags: https://github.com/reox/FreeCAD_gitpack ... /rules#L11

getting this summary:

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==============
Summary report
==============

-- Python:              [/usr/bin/python3] [.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu]
-- PCL:                 1.9.1       
-- pybind11:            2.2.4       
-- Boost:               106700      
-- XercesC:             [/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxerces-c.so] [/usr/include]
-- ZLIB:                1.2.11      
-- PyCXX:               [/build/freecad-daily-0.19+git201906210013~daily/src]
-- OCC:                 7.3.0 [TKFillet;TKMesh;TKernel;TKG2d;TKG3d;TKMath;TKIGES;TKSTL;TKShHealing;TKXSBase;TKBin;TKBool;TKBO;TKCDF;TKBRep;TKTopAlgo;TKGeomAlgo;TKGeomBase;TKOffset;TKPrim;TKSTEP;TKSTEPBase;TKSTEPAttr;TKHLR;TKFeat]
-- SMESH:               build internal
--  MEDFile:            [/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmedC.so] [/usr/include]
--  HDF5:               1.10.4      
--  VTK:                7.1.1       
-- NETGEN:              6.2-dev [-DNO_PARALLEL_THREADS;-DOCCGEOMETRY;-DNETGEN_VERSION=393728] [] [/usr/include/netgen/include;/usr/include/netgen] [nglib] [/usr/include/netgen/include;/usr/include/netgen]
-- SWIG:                3.0.12      
-- Eigen3               3.3.7       
-- Qt5Core:             5.11.3      
-- Qt5Network:          5.11.3      
-- Qt5Xml:              5.11.3      
-- Qt5XmlPatterns:      5.11.3      
-- Qt5Widgets:          5.11.3      
-- Qt5PrintSupport:     5.11.3
-- Qt5OpenGL:           5.11.3      
-- Qt5Svg:              5.11.3      
-- Qt5UiTools:          5.11.3      
-- Qt5Concurrent:       5.11.3      
-- Qt5WebKitWidgets:    5.212.0
-- Shiboken2:           5.11.2 [/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Shiboken2-5.11.2] [/usr/include/shiboken2]
-- PySide2:             5.11.2 [/usr/include/PySide2]
-- PySide2Tools:        [/usr/bin/pyside2-uic] [/usr/bin/pyside2-rcc]
-- Freetype:            2.9.1       
-- OpenGLU:             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so [/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so][/usr/include]
-- Coin3D:              [/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libCoin.so] [/usr/include]
-- SPNAV:               [/usr/lib/libspnav.so] [/usr/include]
-- Matplotlib:          3.0.2       
-- Rift:                not enabled (BUILD_VR)
-- Doxygen:             not found   
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