[Gmsh] -NumSubEdges for imported high order .msh

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 03 Nov 2015, at 17:58, Andre Aguiar <ufabc.andre at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> First of all, thank you all for the effort on the development of such a great tool for all of us.
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> I am a currently undergrad working on the development of high order meshing (obtained from linear ones) and I was trying to visualize it on Gmsh. The problem I’m facing (sorry for the pun) is that my higher order elements are not being visualized as curved ones.
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> I am creating a .msh file myself (without a background .geo). I have checked the –numsubedges command, but it seems it needs some .geo behind it, otherwise faces just stay the same (linear). When I create a mesh from a .geo file, it works, though (Like in sphere.geo demo file - so it's probably not any option config)
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Hi Andre - the option is "Mesh.NumSubEdges": just add it in your config file, or in a script, on on the command line e.g. with -string "Mesh.NumSubEdges = 5;"

Christophe


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> Is there any way to interpolate the faces, given the order I want to visualize it? Or would you mind refering me another way to visualize it as a curved element?
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> Thanks and regards,
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> Andre
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