[Gmsh] Re 0 element number

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 02 Mar 2012, at 08:05, Wayne Christopher wrote:

> Thanks.  My problem is the node numbers.  One of them is 0 but the node numbers begin at 1:
> 
> $Nodes
> 411263
> 1 -499.483 -534.308 3413.74
> ...
> 
> Or should I ignore the explicit node number and count from 0?
> 

No, that should never happen. Can you send us an example?

>    Wayne
> 
> On 3/1/12 9:37 PM, jean pierre aubry wrote:
>> hello
>> 
>> 18362 is the number of the element
>> 2 is the element type (3 nodes triangle)
>> 2 is the number of following tags
>> 0 is the first tag, number of the Physical entity to which the element
>> belongs 15 is the second tag, number of the Geometrical entity to which
>> the element belongs 13962 0 17476 are the three nodes number
>> 
>> all this is explained in the Gmsh Reference Manual chapter File formats
>> 
>> jean pierre aubry
>> 
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