[MOAB-dev] "Global" tags on root set

[Iulian Grindeanu]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 17:14 -0500, Steve Jackson wrote:
> > Moabsters,
> >
> > We sometimes store a single global value in a mesh file-- e.g. a
> > value that was computed over the whole mesh during a calculation.
> > The way we've been doing this is to create a sparse tag and store
> > the value on the root set using that tag.
> ...
> > Does anyone have a suggestion for a better way to look up the value
> > of global tags? Is there a way to list tag values without verbosely
> > printing the entire mesh? Also, do we have a visualization solution
> > that can query tags on the root set?
> 
> This is probably pretty easy with Python. In the latest revision, I
> added support for iMesh_getEntSetsByTagsRec, so it should be easy to
> write a script that accepts as input a tag name and prints out the tag
> values. If you have a list of what exactly you need as output, I could
> write up a script that gets installed along with the Python bindigns.
> 
> - Jim
Hi Jim,
Is it possible to get the var length tags with Python/ pytaps?
for example, "GEOM_SENSE_N_ENTS" , used by GeomTopoTool?
I think that these are filtered out by iMesh, as it does not support var length tags. But maybe our extensions allow it?

Thanks,
Iulian