<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 8:57 AM Gong Yujie <<a href="mailto:yc17470@connect.um.edu.mo">yc17470@connect.um.edu.mo</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7237772683127156054">
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Dear development team,</div>
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Now I'm doing a project about visualization. In the process of visualization, the surface mesh is preferred. I have two questions about the DMPlex mesh. </div>
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<li>Can I output the 3D volume mesh in DMPlex as a .obj or .fbx file? Both these two meshes are just surface mesh.</li></ol></div></div></div></blockquote><div>1) These are undocumented, proprietary formats. We would have to link Autodesk in order to write them.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7237772683127156054"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ol><li>If not, can I output part of the mesh out? Since I have some labels for this part of mesh, can I output this part of mesh (boundary surface mesh) separately?</li></ol></div></div></div></blockquote><div>2) Yes, you can output the surface or the volume to VTK or HDF5. To get just the surface, you can use</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://petsc.org/main/docs/manualpages/DMPlex/DMPlexCreateSubmesh/">https://petsc.org/main/docs/manualpages/DMPlex/DMPlexCreateSubmesh/</a></div><div><br></div><div>with the boundary label.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7237772683127156054"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div>Best Regards,
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