Re: [Libmesh-devel] Support for 1D ExodusII meshes

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Paul T. Bauman wrote:

> Please find attached an updated patch for the ExodusII classes for outputting 1-D elements. I've also enclosed a patch to ex0 that I used to test. I've
> tested it for both EDGE2 and EDGE3 elements and things look kosher when loading the output into ParaView. However, read does not work and I've an included
> an error message that prints when one tries to read a mesh with one dimension using ExodusII. The problem seems to stem from the fact the notion of a side
> set is not defined in ExodusII for 1-D elements. I'm happy to alter the patch if someone has a suggestion how to work around this problem.

This seems to be working well enough (and simple enough) to commit
now, so I've done so; workaround ideas are still appreciated, though.

Also: at first glance it seems like this patch would be sufficient to
handle Nemesis 1D output via the Nemesis classes' use of the Exodus
code.  If I'm wrong about that though it would be good to know...
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Roy