[Gmsh] Gmsh and MED-3.x

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Starting tomorrow the nightly binary snapshots will be compiled with MED3 support. Let us know if you see any unusual problems when using MED files, especially on Windows, as very little testing has been done on our side.

Ch.

On 21 Sep 2011, at 14:49, jean pierre aubry wrote:

> hello
> 
> finally i did it to
> it seems to open med 3 file pretty well
> 
> keep that good job
> 
> jean pierre aubry
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:23:28 +0200,
> Matthieu Labbé <Matthieu.Labbe at necs.fr> a écrit :
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I compiled it (revision 9894) here and it works (on Debian squeeze, I 
>> can give more detail if needed).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matt.
>> 
>> 
>> Christophe Geuzaine a écrit :
>>> On 21 Sep 2011, at 08:50, jean pierre aubry wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> hello
>>>> 
>>>> after the good news, the bad ones
>>>> i have just tried compiling the source with cmake and i get the
>>>> following error at an early stage
>>>> 
>>>> [ 24%] Building CXX object
>>>> CMakeFiles/gmsh.dir/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp.o /dedalus/downloaded/gmsh-2.5.1-svn-20110921-source/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp:
>>>> In member function ‘virtual bool
>>>> PViewDataGModel::writeMED(std::string)’: /dedalus/downloaded/gmsh-2.5.1-svn-20110921-source/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp:673:28:
>>>> error: ‘meshname’ was not declared in this scope make[2]: ***
>>>> [CMakeFiles/gmsh.dir/Post/PViewDataGModelIO.cpp.o] Erreur 1
>>>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/gmsh.dir/all] Erreur 2 make: *** [all]
>>>> Erreur 2
>>>> 
>>>> i must point point out that this is the first time i compile gmsh
>>>> from scartch and my experience in the matter is rather thin
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Jean-Pierre - Can you "svn up" and try again?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> jean pierre aubry
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:26:49 +0200,
>>>> Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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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