[GiDlist] Mesh generating problem with GID 6.1.2
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:03 pm
Hi there,
I have been using GID to generate triangular finite element grids for a while, I was using the 7 version to do so but on a month trial password basis, now I run out of those passwords so I renovated my company's 6 version to install it on my computer, because they had it on an old computer...anyway, I am having problems creating grids, because the program just chooses a really small element size despite the fact that I enter a different size before generating the new mesh.
I have tried with several of my old projects/grids, that I generated with the 7 version and some of them I can generate the mesh again with the pro 6 version and some of them just keep on changing the elements size automatically to something really small, say from 3 m to 0.5 m thus creating a mesh with a million nodes, when I usually run my models on 50,000 node grids...
So basically my question is, why does the GID 6.1.2 change the size of identities automatically when I hit the "generate" mesh button?? why does it do that with some projects and not with others when these projects are pretty much similar or identical?? Is there any way to avoid this??
Thanks very much for your time and help
Enrique
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Enrique Gutiérrez Diez
Tecnocean Ingeniería S.L.
C/ Balmes 184,3º2ª
08006 Barcelona
+34-93-238-8970
www.tecnocean.com
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I have been using GID to generate triangular finite element grids for a while, I was using the 7 version to do so but on a month trial password basis, now I run out of those passwords so I renovated my company's 6 version to install it on my computer, because they had it on an old computer...anyway, I am having problems creating grids, because the program just chooses a really small element size despite the fact that I enter a different size before generating the new mesh.
I have tried with several of my old projects/grids, that I generated with the 7 version and some of them I can generate the mesh again with the pro 6 version and some of them just keep on changing the elements size automatically to something really small, say from 3 m to 0.5 m thus creating a mesh with a million nodes, when I usually run my models on 50,000 node grids...
So basically my question is, why does the GID 6.1.2 change the size of identities automatically when I hit the "generate" mesh button?? why does it do that with some projects and not with others when these projects are pretty much similar or identical?? Is there any way to avoid this??
Thanks very much for your time and help
Enrique
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Enrique Gutiérrez Diez
Tecnocean Ingeniería S.L.
C/ Balmes 184,3º2ª
08006 Barcelona
+34-93-238-8970
www.tecnocean.com
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