[MOAB-dev] VTK structured mesh outpu

[Nico Schlömer]

Hi Paul,

You're right, both MOAB and meshio deal with unstructured meshed right now.

Cheers,
Nico

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:28 PM Paul Wilson <paul.wilson at wisc.edu> wrote:

> 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>
> 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
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> Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Groupcnerg.engr.wisc.edu
>
> Faculty Director, Advanced Computing Initiativeaci.wisc.edu
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