[Gmsh] Capabilities of gmsh

Christophe Geuzaine c.geuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sun Dec 5 18:34:39 CET 2004


Andreas Kopp wrote:
> Dear,
> is it possible to mesh 2D Surfaces with your generator in a 3D domain? 

Andreas - Can you be a little more specific? (Do you mean a "floating" 
surface inside a volume?)

> Is there already a converter from the native .msh file to .lgm/.ng/.bc 
> files?

Not that I know of.

Writing converters for the .msh format is pretty simple. Have a look at 
gmsh/utils/misc/mshsort.cpp in the source distribution to get an example 
on how to read and transform a .msh file.

Christophe

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