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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Thanks for the information's ; even if post-processing is a part of gmsh capabilities, I've been looking for a "light" but accurate post-processor to share results with my colleagues : gmsh is fully adapted for that purpose</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">"Y'a plus qu'à "</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Le 2017-06-17 12:17, Jean-François Remacle a écrit :
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Le 16 juin 2017 à 17:01, <a href="mailto:paul.carrico@free.fr">paul.carrico@free.fr</a> a écrit :<br /> <br /> Hi All</blockquote>
<br /> Hello Paul <br /> <br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">I'm thinking in interfacing a FEA code to Gmsh for post-processing<br /> results ; for that topic the documentation is speaking about an old<br /> file format (legacy).<br /> <br /> Where can I find the right format?</blockquote>
<br /> There are two formats. One (the legacy one) is self contained and is<br /> made of objects (triangles, tets, hexes) with datas. <br /> There is no connectivity : every object is treated independently. See<br /> <a href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#POS-ASCII-file-format" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#POS-ASCII-file-format</a>. <br /> <br /> The second format is more standard. You have to have a mesh (i.e. a<br /> connectivity) and FE results can be saved as data’s for <br /> that mesh. The doc is in<br /> <a href="http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#MSH-ASCII-file-format" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#MSH-ASCII-file-format</a>, see<br /> sections $NodeData, $ElementData <br /> and $ElementNodeData. <br /> <br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Is all the element supported (from shell to volumic elements - 1rst<br /> to 2nd order ones)?</blockquote>
<br /> Yes. High order elements are supported, in both formats. <br /> <br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Is there a limitation in terms of max number of elements?</blockquote>
<br /> No :-) The only limitation is the RAM of your computer. Note that the<br /> second format with $NodeData is clearly cheaper <br /> in term of memory. <br /> <br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Thanks for any feedback<br /> <br /> Regards<br /> <br /> Paul</blockquote>
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