[Gmsh] Gmsh and MED-3.x

[Christophe Geuzaine]

On 21 Sep 2011, at 08:50, jean pierre aubry wrote:

> hello
> 
> after the good news, the bad ones
> i have just tried compiling the source with cmake and i get the
> following error at an early stage
> 
> [ 24%] Building CXX object
> CMakeFiles/gmsh.dir/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp.o /dedalus/downloaded/gmsh-2.5.1-svn-20110921-source/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp:
> In member function ‘virtual bool
> PViewDataGModel::writeMED(std::string)’: /dedalus/downloaded/gmsh-2.5.1-svn-20110921-source/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp:673:28:
> error: ‘meshname’ was not declared in this scope make[2]: ***
> [CMakeFiles/gmsh.dir/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp.o] Erreur 1 make[1]:
> *** [CMakeFiles/gmsh.dir/all] Erreur 2 make: *** [all] Erreur 2
> 
> i must point point out that this is the first time i compile gmsh from
> scartch and my experience in the matter is rather thin
> 

Hi Jean-Pierre - Can you "svn up" and try again?


> jean pierre aubry
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:26:49 +0200,
> Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Good news: the latest SVN version now supports MED3. At the moment
>> you'll have to recompile the code from source (the nightly builds are
>> still using MED2). 
>> 
>> Can Code_Aster users send me feedback? If it's positive I'll (try to)
>> upgrade the build machines.
>> 
>> Christophe
>> 
>> 
>> On 15 Sep 2011, at 05:45, jean pierre aubry wrote:
>> 
>>> hello all
>>> 
>>> this is good news, but i already knew it 
>>> the problem is Aster version 11.x will only output med.3 file
>>> which cannot be read at the moment by Gmsh
>>> 
>>> so 2 wishes
>>> Gmsh should be able to read med.3 as outputed from Aster
>>> or there should be a translator from med.3 to med.2
>>> to be able to read med.3 Psotpro files
>>> 
>>> this would be very useful as Gmsh is at the time the ONLY tool to
>>> display WITHOUT ERRORS "ELNO" type fields for 1D elements
>>> 
>>> jean pierre aubry
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Le Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:52:49 +0200,
>>> Nicolas TARDIEU <nicolas.tardieu at edf.fr> a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> Hi Christophe.
>>>> 
>>>> I confirm that MED3 can read MED2 files. 
>>>> 
>>>> Nicolas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Nicolas TARDIEU
>>>> Ing. Chercheur
>>>> EDF - R&D Dpt AMA
>>>> 
>>>> nicolas.tardieu at edf.fr
>>>> Tél. : 01 47 65 39 05
>>>> 
>>>> Un geste simple pour l'environnement, n'imprimez ce message que si
>>>> vous en avez l'utilité.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be 
>>>> 10/09/2011 08:29
>>>> 
>>>> A
>>>> jeanpierre at lamachine.fr
>>>> cc
>>>> gmsh at geuz.org, Nicolas.Tardieu at edf.fr
>>>> Objet
>>>> Re: [Gmsh] Gmsh and MED-3.x
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 06 Sep 2011, at 14:25, jean pierre aubry wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> hello
>>>>> 
>>>>> will the next version of Gmsh be able
>>>>> 1- to read med-3.x file, (for Postpro results of Code_Aster)?
>>>>> 2- write med-3.x file, (for mesh input of the same)?
>>>>> and if yes, when?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>>>> 
>>>> We definitely plan to, but we (at least I) haven't looked at the 
>>>> difficulty of switching to the new version of the MED library.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a document somewhere explaining the API differences
>>>> between med-2 and med-3? Is it possible to keep med-2
>>>> compatibility when switching to med-3?
>>>> 
>>>> CC'ing Nicolas Tardieu.
>>>> 
>>>> Christophe
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> the 11.xx version of Code_Aster can read med-2.x and med-3.x files
>>>>> but output only med-3.x
>>>>> this is very annoying as there is not med-3.x -> med-2.x
>>>>> translator
>>>>> 
>>>>> some strategy of the "meshing -> calculation -> post processing",
>>>>> with which tools is highly dependent of this answer regarding Gmsh
>>>>> ability
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks in advance
>>>>> 
>>>>> jean pierre aubry
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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