# When meshing solids, the "Quad-dominated" option does not work for me

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**Category:** General Questions\
**Created:** [February 9, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/when-meshing-solids-the-quad-dominated-option-does-not-work-for-me/2450 "2025-02-09T10:46:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/when-meshing-solids-the-quad-dominated-option-does-not-work-for-me/2450/3 "2025-02-09T15:30:50Z")

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for solid part is hex-dominant, but i did not know the reason to not work inside PrePoMax.

 ![2025-02-09 22_28_22-Window](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/2X/8/8985f4c894f61f7c5c6093afb3e8bce7d23d797f.png)

some discussion related,

> [@Gmsh mesher : Quasi-Structured Quad & Hex-Dominant](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/gmsh-mesher-quasi-structured-quad-hex-dominant/1219/8):
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> indeed, a feature in further processing based on existing surface mesh successfully generated by Gmsh is required. It can be used as purpose of extrusion or revolving of : base 2D mesh from quasi-structured quad mesh results midside nodes of quadratic element to follow geometry of revolve curved path normal extrusion of complex 3D Nurbs sure, it has been implemented. R-tree algorithm option is available in version of 3.x but later is deactivated by developer due to some reason. [2023-11-03…

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