<div>Hi all!</div>
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<div>I come back to this thread with some suggestions/questions.</div>
<div>As Billy, I am aware that this might be too much work and may be difficult to do without funding. </div>
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<div>I would like to know if python may be supported?</div>
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<div>Either, GMSH functions may be available through a python API.</div>
<div>Or there could be an integrated python interpreter to execute through GMSH python scripts, while having access to GMSH data (node coordinates, element connectivity, and so on...)</div>
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<div>The idea is that python is quite widespread in CAx software (FreeCAD, Code_Aster, Metafor, ParaView, and so on...) Then, if one wants to implement a writer for a given format, that would be easy in python.</div>
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<div>But maybe another track could be interesting as well.</div>
<div>The idea is similar with what has been done with Octaviz, which was mentionned in a VTK thread yesterday. (<a href="http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/</a>)</div>
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<div>As indicated "Octaviz provides wrappers for VTK classes but at the same time it provides a bunch of high level functions, among them vtk_surf which does the same as the Matlab surf function."</div>
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<div>Could the same approach be used with GMSH: having the possibility to have access to all the VTK functions, which provide most notably writers for various formats?</div>
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<div>Or on the opposite, could GMSH be packaged as ParaView plug-in(s)?</div>
<div>Thus we could achieve meshing in ParaView and benefit from the available writers to export it in any formats.</div>
<div>Writers can be added in ParaView "quite" easily (eitehr in python or C++)</div>
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<div>Oļ, that was just a bunch of ideas.</div>
<div>Again, I am aware that this might be too much work, but maybe not everything I said is silly.</div></div>
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<div>Thanks for this great project!</div>
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<div>Pierre</div>