[Gmsh] GMSH Source: MLine vs. MEdge

[phillip mobley]

Hello Christophe,

Thank you again for responding to my message.

I see now, a MLine is used for the 1D case and a MEdge is used in the 2D
case.So since I am dealing exclusively with 2D meshes, would I really need
the MLine class? Or will there be cases when a 2D mesh uses the MLine class?

I believe that I asked this in my previous message, but I will ask it again
here,

could you go a little bit more into detail of what you mean by "This will
not expose any of the internal complexity of the code."?

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be>
wrote:

>
> Hi Phillip,
>
> No, MLine is a mesh element of type line (a "1D" element). MEdge is a
> topological edge, joining two vertices.
>
> There is currently no documentation of the API; one of our objectives for
> Gmsh 4.0 is to design and distribute a high-level C API. This will not
> expose any of the internal complexity of the code.
>
> Christophe
>
> > On 9 Oct 2017, at 04:31, phillip mobley <phillipmobley2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have another question, this time it is the difference between MLine
> and MEdge.
> >
> > Is the MLine used for the solver of GMSH and is the MEgde used in
> drawing the mesh on the GUI?
> >
> >
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