[Gmsh] How to use a Field as a View

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 7 Oct 2019, at 08:58, Pfeiffelmann, Björn <bjoern.pfeiffelmann at hs-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am trying to use several MathEval commands to create a proper Background Field. I want to check the results of my intermediate calcualtions but I am not able to convert the fields of the .geo file into a view in the GUI.
> I already read this post: http://onelab.info/pipermail/gmsh/2009/004477.html but the FieldView Plugin is somehow not available and I receive these errors:
> Unknown option 'iField' or plugin 'FieldView' ...
> 

Indeed, the plugin was removed a while ago (not sure why). I've coded a simplified version, which simply evaluates any mesh size field on a a given post-processing view. See Plugin(MeshSizeFieldView) in the latest dev snapshot.

Christophe


> Is there another plugin which is able to do this conversion?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Björn
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