[Gmsh] Gmsh mesh file format specification

Nico Schlömer nico.schloemer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 20:57:29 CEST 2012


The Gmsh file format

http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#MSH-ASCII-file-format

does not specify the order of the blocks. I noticed that, Gmsh writes
out PhysicalNames before Nodes and Elements (as opposed to the format
specification), but if you exchange the Node and Element
specifications such that elements are mentioned first, Gmsh will bail
out.

A clarifying sentence there would be very much useful.

--Nico