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Meshing in 3d

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Hi!

What are you guys prefered tools for meshing 3D geometries?

Here is my situation:
I REALLY like the simplicity of mshr, but it seems very limited in 3D. For example, I would like to make a box with N layers inside a big box and be able to control the mesh resolutions of the N+1 domains independently (layer 1, 2, ..., N and big box). This seems impossible in mshr since there are no subdomains in 3d, so I need some other way to do this. Often my geometries consist of boxes, spheres, and other simple geometries combined, exactly as can be done with mshr....
gmsr seems like a way to go, but it would be nice with something which is easily controlable from python when resolutions, lengths, and so on are parametrized and change during runtime. Then come MeshPY, TetGen, NetGen, PyMesh.... So what to choose as a good all-round meshing engine for fenics? :)

asked Sep 7, 2016 by madmax FEniCS Novice (120 points)

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I am also a beginner - and I like gmsh...

answered Sep 8, 2016 by merlinaetzold FEniCS Novice (520 points)
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