# Gmsh mesher : Quasi-Structured Quad & Hex-Dominant **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [November 2, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/gmsh-mesher-quasi-structured-quad-hex-dominant/1219 "2023-11-02T17:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
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Salome\_Meca also has nice hex meshing capabilities but they seem to require a lot of manual work (especially the hexa block technique) and there are some serious limitations. All in all, Gmsh is probably the best free hex mesher. > [@How do you do your hex/quad meshes?](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-do-your-hex-quad-meshes/739): > > I’m keen to know what the rest of you out there use when meshing hex or quads, to then use in Prepomax. I’m working on my SALOME skills but i’m finding it quite complicated to do anything beyond very simple stuff, and not many videos of advanced meshing exists. The docs are good, but not descriptive enough for me to work it out on my own, unless i have A LOT of time. Gmsh seems like even more work, but i dont have much experience with it. I even enquired about the price for the Meshgems “MG H… But if new versions of Gmsh can’t handle hex meshes as well as older ones then I think that adding an issue in their GitHub repository would be a good idea. Even if they are aware of this regression. --- _[View the full topic](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/gmsh-mesher-quasi-structured-quad-hex-dominant/1219)._