[MOAB-dev] Converting to .h5m from Fluent .msh

[Tim Tautges]

There are some local functions in ReadCCMIO for creating cells based on faces.  Eventually these could be generalized to 
a reader helper or API-level class, but only after verifying there's a general enough need for them.

- tim

On 04/13/2015 07:30 AM, Paul Wilson wrote:
> Hi Anton,
>
> I don't believe that such an option exists.  The cells are defined based on canonical ordering of the nodes, so this
> relationship is important. I might not be hard to write a method that would do this for your purposes.  There may be
> something useful in the ReadCCMIO reader as well, as Tim suggested.
>
> Paul
>
> On 04/10/2015 04:13 PM, Kanaev A.A. wrote:
>> Hello Paul,
>>
>> Thanks for the recommendations!
>>
>> Short question: is there an option in MOAB to create cells from faces, not from nodes?
>>
>> Anton
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Paul Wilson [paul.wilson at wisc.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 5:12 PM
>> To: Kanaev A.A.
>> Subject: Re: [MOAB-dev] Converting to .h5m from Fluent .msh
>>
>> Hello Anton,
>>
>> There are a number of mesh format readers in moab/src/io that might
>> provide a good template.  I know of a few different formats that have
>> had features implemented on an as-needed basis, so they are not
>> complete, but provide just enough for what the person needed at the
>> time.  For example, I'll take the credit/blame for the ABAQUS reader
>> that only supports a subset of the element types that ABAQUS can generate.
>>
>> Many of the mesh files have very similar formats, so it might make sense
>> to take a look at other readers to see which is the best match to use as
>> a starting point and/or guide.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 04/08/2015 06:44 PM, Kanaev A.A. wrote:
>>> Hello MOAB-dev,
>>> I'm considering writing conversion utility from Fluent .msh to MOAB .h5m
>>>
>>> .msh format is:
>>> -nodes declaration
>>> - a list of nodes (x, y, z)
>>> -cells declaration
>>> -faces declaration
>>> - a list of faces (node1, node2, node3, node4, adj cell1, adj cell2)
>>>
>>> What should i do next to create mesh from scratch with MOAB?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anton
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