# How do you do your hex/quad meshes? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [February 23, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-do-your-hex-quad-meshes/739 "2023-02-23T16:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![synt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/prepomax.discourse.group/synt/32/4658_2.png) [@synt](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/synt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-do-your-hex-quad-meshes/739/19 "2023-03-01T17:53:09Z")
> [@Tor](#): > > Did GMSH use to have HEX dominated mesh options, and then removed it? i did not know exactly, but it seems something has changed. i do roll back to version 3.0 and found it worked again. mesh option need to be set properly ![2023-03-02 00_34_51-Gmsh - C__Users_user_Documents_hexdom.geo](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/1X/59a3620b0bc311aadee65818c655e9230f70e064.png) ![2023-03-02 00_36_18-Options - Mesh](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/1X/3d1892a3f04b241ac8663a44feea0f6de1464219.png) ![2023-03-02 00_41_49-Statistics](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/1X/055749f6abe21582506712445411bf0fb2e5eb21.png) i exported to readable in PrePoMax as UNV and shown below, it’s solvable but i did not check further. ![2023-03-02 00_51_47-](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/1X/00884c34a250987262ceb8a5483507c0059f1147.png) i will try again to the latest version 4.x and hopes it’s working also with many improvement. \*edited it seems to be right, an algorithm for hex-dominant mesh with R-tree is not available there. ![2023-03-02 01_17_23-Options - Mesh](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/1X/8e3bee5bd558fd954a030d4ca379112d54cdbeb8.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/how-do-you-do-your-hex-quad-meshes/739)._