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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I’m trying to read a 2D mesh in plot3d single-block format, which looks something like<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">List_of_y_coordinates<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">List_of_z_coordinates<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Each list of coordinates is ordered as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">For k=1 to k=Nk{<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial"> For i=1 to i=Ni{<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial"> List_of_*_coordinates(i,j,k)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">However, gmsh seems to switch the order, i.e.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">For k=1 to k=Nk{<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> For i=1 to i=Ni{
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font-family:Arial"> For j=1 to j=Nj{
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font-family:Arial"> List_of_*_coordinates(i,j,k)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Have any of you ever used the plot3d format and observed this problem?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hein de Vries<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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