Re: [Libmesh-devel] [Libmesh-users] Visualizing libmesh ex10 results

[Derek G. <fri...@gm...>]

The problem with this is compatibility with existing mesh generators
like Cubit... Might be tricky to get them to write the correct
attribute as the subdomain ID.

Derek

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On Mar 15, 2010, at 11:49 AM, John Peterson <pet...@cf...
 > wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
> <ben...@na...> wrote:
>> Yeah, I am thinking solely about the library, not exodus...
>
> Speaking of exodus, it looks like you can specify an arbitrary number
> of "attributes" for an element?  We currently throw this information
> away, but I suggest we store libmesh's subdomain id as an extra
> attribute and write the elements to file in groups of like geometric
> type.  Then we read them back in, we can grab the stored attribute to
> set the user-intended subdomain ID, irrespective of geometric type.
>
> --
> John