[MOAB-dev] Gmsh msh file format version 4 reader

[Madhusudhan Kundrapu]

Thanks, Vijay.


On 10/9/18 4:27 PM, Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote:
> Hi Madhu,
>
>> 1.  How to access the PhysicalNames and the associated elements, after
>> an msh file was read by moab?
> After the mesh read, the material id's should be available as part of
> the MATERIAL_SET. However, we don't have a good way to actually store
> the physical names corresponding to the material IDs. So those are
> probably ignored; however I don't have a mesh example to test this at
> the moment to verify the behavior.
Thanks for this info. We will try working with the IDs.
>> 2. Are there any plans for adding the compatibility of msh version 4?
> We haven't looked at the latest format changes yet. If you can adapt
> the reader I/O code for the new format, we would be happy to take a
> pull request and add the changes to master. I'm a bit swamped at the
> moment but may have some time the second half of October if it can
> wait.
I think it can wait.

-Madhu
> Vijay
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:28 PM Madhusudhan Kundrapu <madhusnk at txcorp.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 1.  How to access the PhysicalNames and the associated elements, after
>> an msh file was read by moab?
>>
>> 2. Are there any plans for adding the compatibility of msh version 4?
>>
>> -Madhu
>>