[Gmsh] How to choose an element type in non-interactive mode

[Umut Tabak]

Wojciech Artichowicz wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I would like to ask how to choose an element type in non-interactive mode.
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> I haven’t found it in help nor in tutorial or reference manual.
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> How can I for example choose triangles or quads of 2 order (complete).
>
Hi

as far as I know, gmsh is an unstructured mesh generator, so by default 
that generates triangular meshes(in 2D). By 'transfinite' definition 
triangles are combined into quads(I hope this is not wrong, anyway 
developers will comment on that.)
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> So far I’ve managed to create only triangle mesh, and if elements were 
> of order higher than one, they were always incomplete.
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There should be transfinite examples to generate quad meshes in the 
tutorials. Mesh order could be set with the options, I have used this 
before but do not remember now, sth like secondOrder complete, you can 
set that to 1 or 0 depending on the choice, that should be in the manual.

HTH,
Umut