[Gmsh] conformal mulitregion meshing from commandline +step file import

[David Colignon]

Hi,

at least you can pass a command string to gmsh on the command line:

 > gmsh -h
...
...
-string "string"     Parse command string at startup

Regards,

Dave

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On 25/10/15 10:40, Anan Im wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> as to my knowledge gmsh is capable of "conformal" meshing from command line: For example with Justin Blacks pycalculix  on http://justinablack.com/pycalculix/ one can use gmsh for it, in this case in a way, where the meshing functions are written into the .geo file - beneath the cad functions.
> On the other hand there are scripts that export step files for meshing to gmsh, using its command line interface. Already I experimented with exporting a so called compound - but did not succeed in terms of conformal meshing by now.
>
> Which leads to the question:
> Can not one communicate the meshing functions (Mesh.*) from/through the command line, if geometry is imported from a cad program, lets say in step format, anything different from geo?
>
> I might express that I will be very thankful (and not only mine) if there gets (known) a non interactive conformal meshing interface to the open source world.
> So if you can exclude that there is a way, which would be a valuable information in itself btw, would you put this as "feature request" on the list of future development?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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