[Gmsh] gmsh to patran export
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Mon May 11 23:17:18 CEST 2009
Umut Tabak wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> This might not be a direct work related to you but I encountered some
> problems in the gmsh written bdf files while exporting them into patran.
> Some of the elements are not exported correctly into Patran due to some
> format errors I guess. I tried to solve the issue myself, could not for
> the moment but I guess the problem is related to "tags" field of Gmsh,
> especially the 2nd field which specifies the elementary geometrical
> entity to which the element belongs. Patran can not handle this
> information correctly from the output file written by Gmsh. I would be
Hmm, not sure about this: I don't have access to Patran.
Can anybody on the list with access to Patran give the file a try?
> pleased if you shed some light on this point. Lastly, my intention was
> to use the reordering capabilities of Patran by a simple Python
> script(RCM algorithm, Patran will do the job for me). I also attached
> simple files that you can examine.
>
> Thanks for the help and comments.
>
> Best,
>
> Umut
>
> Ps: bdf file is saved directly from the GUI with large field format.
>
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