[Gmsh] writing p3d mesh with gmsh

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Gerald Good wrote:
> I recently started learning to use gmsh and so far it looks like a great 
> tool. I had trouble trying to export a mesh in P3D format though - was 
> wondering if you could have a look or were aware of the problem. I 
> included the .gmsh-errors file, the starting sphere-stl.stl mesh file 
> (from the demos), a resulting volumetric mesh file sphere-stl.msh. A 
> sphere-stl.p3d file is output by gmsh but is an empty file, so I didn't 
> bother including it.

I don't know the details, but IIRC the p3d format only works with
structured meshes. You might want to ask Matt Gundry <mjgundry at
faa-engineers.com> for some help: he's the one who implemented it.

Christophe

>  
> Thanks,
> Gerald
> Info    : -------------------------------------------------------
> Info    : Gmsh version   : 1.60.1
> Info    : Build OS       : CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.10(0.116/4/2)
> Info    : Build options  : GSL TRIANGLE NETGEN JPEG PNG ZLIB MATHEVAL
> Info    : Build date     : Tue Mar 15 08:00:53 PST 2005
> Info    : Build host     : geuz
> Info    : Packager       : geuzaine
> Info    : Home directory : /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/m284091.ITAR/
> Info    : Launch date    : Wed Jun 29 10:20:24 2005
> Info    : Command line   : /cygdrive/c/gmsh/gmsh
> Info    : -------------------------------------------------------
> Info    : Reading mesh file '/cygdrive/c/gmsh/demos/sphere-stl.msh'
> Info    : 614 nodes
> Info    : 3424 elements
> Info    : Read mesh file '/cygdrive/c/gmsh/demos/sphere-stl.msh'
> Info    : Writing mesh file '/cygdrive/c/gmsh/demos/sphere-stl.p3d'
> Warning : No Plot3d format of physicals yet, saving all elements!
> Fatal   : Wrong list index (read)
> Info    : Writing log file '/cygdrive/c/Documents and 
> Settings/m284091.ITAR/.gmsh-errors'
> 



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Christophe Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
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