[Gmsh] Gmsh and MED-3.x

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Hi all,

Good news: the latest SVN version now supports MED3. At the moment you'll have to recompile the code from source (the nightly builds are still using MED2). 

Can Code_Aster users send me feedback? If it's positive I'll (try to) upgrade the build machines.

Christophe


On 15 Sep 2011, at 05:45, jean pierre aubry wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> I confirm that MED3 can read MED2 files. 
>> 
>> Nicolas
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>> Nicolas TARDIEU
>> Ing. Chercheur
>> EDF - R&D Dpt AMA
>> 
>> nicolas.tardieu at edf.fr
>> Tél. : 01 47 65 39 05
>> 
>> Un geste simple pour l'environnement, n'imprimez ce message que si
>> vous en avez l'utilité.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be 
>> 10/09/2011 08:29
>> 
>> A
>> jeanpierre at lamachine.fr
>> cc
>> gmsh at geuz.org, Nicolas.Tardieu at edf.fr
>> Objet
>> Re: [Gmsh] Gmsh and MED-3.x
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>> On 06 Sep 2011, at 14:25, jean pierre aubry wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> CC'ing Nicolas Tardieu.
>> 
>> Christophe
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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>> 
> 

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Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine