[Gmsh] gmsh to patran export

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Umut Tabak wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> This might not be a direct work related to you but I encountered some 
> problems in the gmsh written bdf files while exporting them into patran. 
> Some of the elements are not exported correctly into Patran due to some 
> format errors I guess. I tried to solve the issue myself, could not for 
> the moment but I guess the problem is related to "tags" field of Gmsh, 
> especially the 2nd field which specifies the elementary geometrical 
> entity to which the element belongs. Patran can not handle this 
> information correctly from the output file written by Gmsh. I would be 

Hmm, not sure about this: I don't have access to Patran.

Can anybody on the list with access to Patran give the file a try?


> pleased if you shed some light on this point. Lastly, my intention was 
> to use the reordering capabilities of Patran by a simple Python 
> script(RCM algorithm, Patran will do the job for me). I also attached 
> simple files that you can examine.
> 
> Thanks for the help and comments.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Umut
> 
> Ps: bdf file is saved directly from the GUI with large field format.
> 
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