[MOAB-dev] VTK structured mesh outpu

[Paul Wilson]

Hi Nico,

Thanks for the meshio tip, but MOAB can natively write to an 
unstructured representation in VTK.  Does meshio do anything special to 
create a structured representation?

Thanks,

Paul


On 09/19/2016 03:24 PM, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> FYI, you can convert H5M files to VTK (and a number of other formats) 
> using meshio [1,2].
>
> Cheers,
> Nico
>
> [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/meshio
> [2] https://github.com/nschloe/meshio
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:22 PM Grindeanu, Iulian R. 
> <iulian at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:iulian at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     MOAB does not have a structured writer. Not even for h5m format
>     (it has the ability to create structured meshes)
>     even in that case, the mesh is written explicit (unstructured)
>
>     structured vtk format is relatively simpler, but do you plan to
>     add reader and writer or just writer?
>
>     How do you create structured mesh, with scd interface?
>
>     thanks,
>     Iulian
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>     Subject: [MOAB-dev] VTK structured mesh outpu
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Does the MOAB VTK writer have a way to write structured mesh data
>     using
>     VTK's structured mesh format?  For data that conforms to that, it
>     saves
>     a substantial amount of disk space and also speeds up
>     processing/visualization times.
>
>     If not, we may be interested in helping add this...
>
>     Paul
>
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Paul P.H. Wilson
Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering
608-263-0807
paul.wilson at wisc.edu
419 Engineering Research Bldg
1500 Engineering Dr, Madison, WI 53706
calendar: http://go.wisc.edu/pphw-cal

Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Group
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Faculty Director, Advanced Computing Initiative
aci.wisc.edu

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