[Gmsh] Medit file format

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sun Aug 22 17:16:33 CEST 2010


Hi Geordie - I've comitted the stuff for hexahedra: let me know if it 
works...

On 06/05/10 09:40, Geordie McBain wrote:
> 2010/5/6 Geordie McBain<gdmcbain at freeshell.org>:
>> I'll write Pascal Frey and ask him about the vertex ordering of
>> hexahedral elements.
>
> Dr Frey replied:
>
> Dear Dr Geordie,
>
> In Medit (mesh format), hexahedral elements are numbered as follows:
> suppose vertices 1,2,3,4 are in plane z=0 and 5,6,7,8 in plane z=1
> then vertices 1,2,3,4 form a quadrilateral having a normal oriented
> toward plane z=1
> and vertex 5 is above vertex 1, 6 above 2, etc..
> in other words, vertices are labelled quite "intuitively", as
> depiected hereafter
>
>
>
> Feel free to ask more question if something remains unclear.
> Best regards
> Pascal
>
>
>
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