From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 18:49:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improve error message.
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3095adf4ac00c15b708bafdb4fdb44fea2e1c62b;p=dealii-svn.git

Improve error message.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@31059 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
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diff --git a/deal.II/source/grid/grid_reordering.cc b/deal.II/source/grid/grid_reordering.cc
index b5d385272a..9903f8255b 100644
--- a/deal.II/source/grid/grid_reordering.cc
+++ b/deal.II/source/grid/grid_reordering.cc
@@ -660,7 +660,20 @@ GridReordering<2>::invert_all_cells_of_negative_grid(const std::vector<Point<2>
   // might work also on single cells, grids
   // with both kind of cells are very likely to
   // be broken. Check for this here.
-  AssertThrow(n_negative_cells==0 || n_negative_cells==cells.size(), ExcInternalError());
+  AssertThrow(n_negative_cells==0 || n_negative_cells==cells.size(),
+              ExcMessage(std::string("This class assumes that either all cells have positive "
+                                     "volume, or that all cells have been specified in an "
+                                     "inverted vertex order so that their volume is negative. "
+                                     "(In the latter case, this class automatically inverts "
+                                     "every cell.) However, the mesh you have specified "
+                                     "appears to have both cells with positive and cells with "
+                                     "negative volume. You need to check your mesh which "
+                                     "cells these are and how they got there.\n"
+                                     "As a hint, of the total ")
+                         + Utilities::int_to_string (cells.size())
+                         + " cells in the mesh, "
+                         + Utilities::int_to_string (n_negative_cells)
+                         + " appear to have a negative volume."));
 }