<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">hi dear Gmsh creators</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I'm a mechanical engineering student and I'm trying to add the ability to draw nurbs curves to your great product Gmsh. </div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">My question may seem kinda silly but which function(s) is (are) resposnible for drawing B-splines in the source code?</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">As far as I discovered when clicked on an elementry entitiy like "B-spline" the function "geometry_elementary_add_new_cb()" calls </div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div
style="background-color: transparent;">add_new_multiline() and sends "Bspline" to this function. Then this function waits until the control points are chosen and afterward sends the type of the curve,the </div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">points and the file name to a function called "add_multline()" and this function saves the type of the curve and the control points in a string and sends this string </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">and <span
style="background-color: transparent;">the filename to the function add_infile().</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Am I totally right so far?</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">If yes,I dont really know what happens after that. :-?</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new
york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">How does the program then use this data?and how does it then draw the B-spline?(using which functions?)</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">I found a fucntion called "addnurbs()" in the source code?is this function responsible for that?I dont guess so,Beacause I didn't find where the inputs of this </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;
font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">function come from.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Any help would be gratefully appreciated</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">Pouriya :)</div></div></body></html>