[Gmsh] Gmsh and MED-3.x

[jean pierre aubry]

hello all

this is good news, but i already knew it 
the problem is Aster version 11.x will only output med.3 file
which cannot be read at the moment by Gmsh

so 2 wishes
Gmsh should be able to read med.3 as outputed from Aster
or there should be a translator from med.3 to med.2
to be able to read med.3 Psotpro files

this would be very useful as Gmsh is at the time the ONLY tool to
display WITHOUT ERRORS "ELNO" type fields for 1D elements

jean pierre aubry




Le Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:52:49 +0200,
Nicolas TARDIEU <nicolas.tardieu at edf.fr> a écrit :

> Hi Christophe.
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> I confirm that MED3 can read MED2 files. 
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> Nicolas
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> On 06 Sep 2011, at 14:25, jean pierre aubry wrote:
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> > hello
> > 
> > will the next version of Gmsh be able
> > 1- to read med-3.x file, (for Postpro results of Code_Aster)?
> > 2- write med-3.x file, (for mesh input of the same)?
> > and if yes, when?
> > 
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> Hi Jean-Pierre,
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> We definitely plan to, but we (at least I) haven't looked at the 
> difficulty of switching to the new version of the MED library.
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> Is there a document somewhere explaining the API differences between
> med-2 and med-3? Is it possible to keep med-2 compatibility when
> switching to med-3?
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> CC'ing Nicolas Tardieu.
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> Christophe
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> > the 11.xx version of Code_Aster can read med-2.x and med-3.x files
> > but output only med-3.x
> > this is very annoying as there is not med-3.x -> med-2.x translator
> > 
> > some strategy of the "meshing -> calculation -> post processing",
> > with which tools is highly dependent of this answer regarding Gmsh
> > ability
> > 
> > thanks in advance
> > 
> > jean pierre aubry
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