[Gmsh] gettingv2.6.1 started

[Geordie McBain]

2012/10/4 Stephen Wornom <stephen.wornom at inria.fr>

> I believe that gmsh is install correctly but have some doubts.
> I have a test mesh file
> cat gmsh_test.mesh
> $MeshFormat
>

[...]


> $EndNodeData
>

Conventionally the suffix .msh is used for files like this in the Gmsh "MSH
ASCII file format" <
http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#MSH-ASCII-file-format>.  The
.mesh suffix is reserved for those in Pascal Frey's MEDIT format.


> Is it normal that there is no output? I am new so I don't know what to
> expect when I do
> gmsh gmsh_test.mesh
>
> if I type
> gmsh
> I get  the help menu.
>

No GUI?  If I type "gmsh", I get a GUI.  If I type "gmsh gmsh_test.mesh", I
get an empty GUI, as I guess Gmsh is confused by the suffix.  If I type "cp
gmsh_test.m{e,}sh; gmsh gmsh_test.msh", I see "A scalar view" in the GUI,
from which I can save a PNG, as attached.

-- 
G. D. McBain

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