Hi everyone,
Until now, I made a various simulations with an empty sphere on which I subtracted various cylinder and box at different angle to make holes into it. But when I tried to increase one (box) hole (which is subtracted multiple times) by 1cm, the compilation is going well however when I launch the OGL visualization I end with a black screen.
Any suggestions are welcome
Thanks
Thibault
What version of Geant4 are you using? Are there any warning messages?
I’m using the 10.07-p02 and I don’t have any messages. The visualization stay black and in my console I have the end of my Vis.mac file (I tried to reduce or change it but the problem is still here)
I’m sorry, but will you look back through your console messages. I would be very surprised if there is not some clue to the problem in there.
Please give as much detail as possible when filing a problem. What platform are you running on? What build configuration?
Nothing special appear on my console, I have the exact same console output as when I simulate smaller holes.
And like the only change between these 2 simulation is the size of the subtracted volume, I suspect it to be at fault here. But there are no errors that occur when compiling or launching.
Otherwise I’m running it on ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS and it was build whith cmake 3.10.2 …
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Geant4 version Name: geant4-10-07-patch-02 [MT] (11-June-2021)
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G4VModularPhysicsList::ReplacePhysics: hInelastic QGSP_BIC_HP with type : 6 is replaced with hInelastic ShieldingLEND
test 1
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this might be a stupid question: have you checked that you do not somehow subtract the complete volume and simply nothing is left over? to increase the “box hole by 1cm” could also mean that the whole box is 2cm by 2cm by 2cm larger, as dimensions in geant4 are typically half-lengths. depending on how large it was before, this could be quite significant 
otherwise you probably need to post some code…
The mother value is a sphere whose diameter is about 1m , the part I want to remove is a box of 3*3cm (formerly 2 by 2 cm) with a length about twice the thickness of the sphere (which stay unchanged).
On the old simulation, the visualization doesn’t show any problems ans there is plenty of place for increasing the hole size.