[Gmsh] Phyical entity as element tag in command line bdf export

Geordie McBain gdmcbain at freeshell.org
Wed Mar 6 07:15:32 CET 2013


2013/3/5 Bert De Coensel <bert.decoensel at intec.ugent.be>:
> Dear Gmsh users,
>
> We are using the the BDF export functionality of Gmsh. When saving a mesh in
> BDF file format through the gui, the BDF options window is shown, where one
> can choose "physical entity" for "element tag", which is what we need.
> However, we would also like to use Gmsh in command line mode, e.g. using the
> command "gmsh.exe test.geo -3 -o test.bdf", but elementary entities are then
> saved by default. Are there any command line options to change this
> behavior?

 -string 'Mesh.SaveElementTagType=2;'

http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#index-Mesh_002eSaveElementTagType-831