# Gmsh: Error reading the mesh
**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-error-reading-the-mesh/317
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-error-reading-the-mesh/317 "2020-04-03T15:18:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Julien](https://community.freefem.org/u/Julien)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-error-reading-the-mesh/317/1 "2020-04-03T15:18:45Z")
Hi everyone !
I have an error reading a simple Gmsh mesh in FreeFem++
#FreeFem ++ ouput:
Element of type 3 is not considered in Freefem++
#FreeFem++ script:
load “gmsh”
mesh Th = gmshload(“square.msh”);
#Gmsh .geo script:
//+
Point(1) = {0, -0, 0, 1.0};
//+
Point(2) = {1, -0, 0, 1.0};
//+
Point(3) = {1, 1, 0, 1.0};
//+
Point(4) = {-0, 1, 0, 1.0};
//+
Line(1) = {1, 2};
//+
Line(2) = {2, 3};
//+
Line(3) = {3, 4};
//+
Line(4) = {4, 1};
//+
Curve Loop(1) = {3, 4, 1, 2};
//+
Plane Surface(1) = {1};
A similar problem has already been solved in this forum, but it concerned the command Recombine, that I don’t have in my .geo script.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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### Author:  [@frederichecht](https://community.freefem.org/u/frederichecht)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-error-reading-the-mesh/317/2 "2020-04-03T16:34:03Z")
No way, freefem just do triangle or tet , no quad
and elements of type 3 are quad in gmsh c.f.
2D entity (surface) 1, element type 3 (4-node quad), 2 elements
1 1 2 3 4 quad tag #1, nodes 1 2 3 4