[Gmsh] Command Line - Saving File as "inp"

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Hi René,

Indeed, we forgot to add "inp" in the strings recognized by the "-format" options on the command line. This is now fixed in svn.

But the simpler solution is to actually not use the "-format" option at all: by default gmsh selects the format depending on the extension of the output file name, so you can simply do

  gmsh plate.step -3 -o plate.inp

Cheers,

Christophe

On 13 Aug 2012, at 16:57, René Wohlgethan <renwohlgethan at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> My Name is René and I am very new working with Gmsh. 
> 
> My aim is to work with it by using the command line and integrate into a 3rd party software for optimization (modeFRONTIER).  Here I want to use it in combination with Calculix - 
> 
> Therefore I found out that Gmsh can export *.inp files and this works very well if  I do it manually, but whenerver I try to run this by command line it says:  File format unknown.
> 
> 
> The commands I use are: 
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> "C:\gmsh-2.6.1-Windows\gmsh"  Plate.step -3 -clcurv -refine -hoOptimize   ---- works fine
> 
> 
> but this : 
> 
> 
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> "C:\gmsh-2.6.1-Windows\gmsh"  Plate.step -3 -clcurv -refine -hoOptimize  -format "inp" -- gives out:  FATAL: Unknown mesh format. 
> 
> 
> while with the other file formats the command stricly above works again. 
> 
> 
> 
> So one questions: 
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> 1) What did I do wrong, or is it a bug?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance and best regards, 
> 
> René
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