<div dir="ltr">Ahh, fantastic, thanks. I realise my problem: in my .bash_profile I had:<div><br></div><div>alias gmsh="open -a gmsh"</div><div><br></div><div>which was silly :) Fixing this to</div><div><br></div><div>alias gmsh="/Applications/Gmsh.app/Contents/MacOS/gmsh"<br></div><div><br></div><div>solved my problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help!</div><div>Tom</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Fabrice Pepin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fa_201@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">fa_201@yahoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5003">Hello,</div><div id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5002"><br></div><div id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5001" dir="ltr">meshing and exporting the mesh can also be requested in the geo file.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5108">Look at meshing command and meshing options. I use some the command below :</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5107">Mesh.ElementOrder = 2;<br id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5133">Mesh.SecondOrderIncomplete = 1;<br id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5134">Mesh.Format = 39; // Abaqus format</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5150">Mesh 2; // for 2D</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5103">Save "file_name.inp"; // export in the same directory as geo file<br></div><div id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5000"><span></span></div><div class="m_-8337766088458574568qtdSeparateBR" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4939">Fabrice.<br><br></div><div class="m_-8337766088458574568yahoo_quoted" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4929" style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4928"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4927"> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4926"> <font id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4937" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4938" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De :</span></b> DILASSER Guillaume <<a href="mailto:Guillaume.DILASSER@cea.fr" target="_blank">Guillaume.DILASSER@cea.fr</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">À :</span></b> Thomas Charles Reading Moore <<a href="mailto:thoamsm@student.unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">thoamsm@student.unimelb.edu.<wbr>au</a>>; "<a href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" target="_blank">gmsh@geuz.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org" target="_blank">gmsh@geuz.org</a>> <br> <b id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5280"><span style="font-weight:bold" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5279">Envoyé le :</span></b> Lundi 23 janvier 2017 9h50<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Gmsh] Create mesh using command line<br> </font> </div> <div class="m_-8337766088458574568y_msg_container" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_4936"><div><div class="h5"><br><div id="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766"><div id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5099">
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5097"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" id="m_-8337766088458574568yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485205817003_5100" lang="EN-US">You can use the following command line : gmsh <name_of_your_geo_file.geo> -2 <-o name_of_the_output_file>. “-2” is equivalent
to using the Mesh 2D command from the UI, additionnaly you can specify the desired .msh output file name with the –o switch.</span></div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">Hope this was helpful,</span></div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">Guillaume Dilasser</span></div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">De :</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> gmsh [mailto:<a href="mailto:gmsh-bounces@ace20.montefiore.ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">gmsh-bounces@ace20.<wbr>montefiore.ulg.ac.be</a>]
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<b>Envoyé :</b> lundi 23 janvier 2017 08:15<br clear="none">
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<b>Objet :</b> [Gmsh] Create mesh using command line</span></div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal">I have a .geo file which I'd like to create a .msh file from. My current procedure is </div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal"> - open the .geo file using the termianl</div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal"> - save the .msh file.</div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal">Is there a way to do this (tedious) process via the command line? I'm using a Macbook Pro if that's relevant. </div>
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<div class="m_-8337766088458574568yiv0900542766MsoNormal">Thanks</div>
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