From b8e9a23a10ba89f19e9feb3549aa748288303c8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine@ulg.ac.be>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:35:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add more warnings about the robustness of the 2D aniso and 3D
algorithms.
---
doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi
index 33236188fc..229d5a6bca 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
\input texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*-
-@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.72 2003-07-07 16:43:46 geuzaine Exp $
+@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.73 2003-07-19 23:35:44 geuzaine Exp $
@c
@c Copyright (C) 1997-2003 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
@c
@@ -491,8 +491,8 @@ commands and command arguments to depend on previous calculations (see
@item
generate 1D, 2D and 3D simplicial (i.e.@: using line segments, triangles and
tetrahedra) finite element meshes. The performance of the 1D and 2D
-algorithms is pretty good; the 3D algorithm is still somewhat experimental
-and slow (see @ref{Mesh module}, and @ref{Tutorial});
+algorithms is pretty good; the 3D algorithm is still experimental and slow
+(see @ref{Mesh module}, and @ref{Tutorial});
@item
specify target element sizes accurately. Gmsh provides several mechanisms to
control the size of the elements in the final mesh: through interpolation
@@ -561,6 +561,11 @@ conforming in the sense of finite element meshes;
the user has no control over the quality of the mesh elements generated by
the 3D unstructured algorithm;
@item
+the 2D anisotropic and the 3D unstructured algorithms are still experimental
+and not very robust. If these algorithms fail, try to change some
+characteristic lengths to generate meshes that better suit the geometrical
+details of the structures;
+@item
Gmsh was designed to solve academic test-cases, not industrial-size
problems. You may find that Gmsh is too slow for large problems (with
thousands of geometric primitives, or millions of mesh/post-processing
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