[Gmsh] Command Line - Saving File as "inp"

[René Wohlgethan]

Hello Christophe,


Thank you very much ! It works quite well. But now i am facing another
problem where I think I am not the first, but google doesn´t give very
helpful informations.

After meshing I then want to use Calculix. Do you have any experiences or
reccomendations about the file interchange format?

As far as I have read I create a Abaqus Input deck which is slightly
different from Calculix. Are there any hints or free translators?

BR ,

René




2012/8/14 Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be>

>
> Hi René,
>
> Indeed, we forgot to add "inp" in the strings recognized by the "-format"
> options on the command line. This is now fixed in svn.
>
> But the simpler solution is to actually not use the "-format" option at
> all: by default gmsh selects the format depending on the extension of the
> output file name, so you can simply do
>
>   gmsh plate.step -3 -o plate.inp
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christophe
>
> On 13 Aug 2012, at 16:57, René Wohlgethan <renwohlgethan at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > My Name is René and I am very new working with Gmsh.
> >
> > My aim is to work with it by using the command line and integrate into a
> 3rd party software for optimization (modeFRONTIER).  Here I want to use it
> in combination with Calculix -
> >
> > Therefore I found out that Gmsh can export *.inp files and this works
> very well if  I do it manually, but whenerver I try to run this by command
> line it says:  File format unknown.
> >
> >
> > The commands I use are:
> >
> > "C:\gmsh-2.6.1-Windows\gmsh"  Plate.step -3 -clcurv -refine -hoOptimize
>   ---- works fine
> >
> >
> > but this :
> >
> >
> >
> > "C:\gmsh-2.6.1-Windows\gmsh"  Plate.step -3 -clcurv -refine -hoOptimize
>  -format "inp" -- gives out:  FATAL: Unknown mesh format.
> >
> >
> > while with the other file formats the command stricly above works again.
> >
> >
> >
> > So one questions:
> >
> > 1) What did I do wrong, or is it a bug?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance and best regards,
> >
> > René
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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