I'm trying using gmsh with Mecway.
I Imported a .step that mehes OK with Netgen, but whith gmsh I get a message "Could not find mesh file" and "Meshing failed"
In the Mecwayinstance folder there are several files:
gmshparameters.geo
ngmeshed.vol
normals.vol
test.out
but no .msh file
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Gmsh opens the geo file and saves the mesh, but windows can't see the file.
I'm attaching the screen capture where you can see that component8.msh in the gmsh "open" dialog but not in the windows folder.
In the "open" dialog I could edit the file with Notepad. If in Notepad I "save as" a different file, windows doesen't see it also.
If I copy all the lines in the notepad, open an new Notepad file and paste into it, I can save as .msh and windows can see it.
The same happens if I save other files with gmsh, windows can't see any file saved by gmsh.
Refresh the display with F5
Turn on showing Hidden items.
It also sounds like UAC virtualization where only the applications that created the files can see them. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150902-00/?p=91681
This happens also if I run gmsh as administrator.
The files are not in virtualstore.
Running cmd and looking old fahion DOS DIR shows the sale files I can see in windows.
It's like those files are gohst and only gmsh can see them.
I tryed running in windows 8 compatibility mode also.
About your problem, try to change the place were Mecway save the simulation files to the same folder as the lml file (in the options menu)
Regards!
It is the same without preview panel.
Serigio, I've tryed running gmsh directly from different folders and the problem persists.
Only gmsh can see the files it saves, not windows file explorer or other programs, neither DOS Dir command.
Thank you both for your help.
Gmsh was running in Comodo antivirus Sandbox, in a virtualized folder.