From: Roy S. <roy...@ic...> - 2010-11-16 16:44:12
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Derek Gaston wrote: > On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: > >> Fair enough. One of these days we need to finally implement hybrid >> mesh output with Exodus, though. > > Note: Hybrid mesh output does work now.... the two different types > of elements just need to have different subdomain ids. > > I'm sure you probably know that... That depends on your philosophical definition of the word "know", I think. If you'd asked me "Can libMesh ever output a hybrid mesh in Exodus?" I would have said "Not yet"; if you'd then asked me "Can libMesh output a hybrid mesh in Exodus if no two elements of different type have the same subdomain ID?" I would have (after a pause) said "yes", contradicting my previous answer. But we do still eventually need to implement that "increment/decrement subdomain ID by element type when writing/reading Exodus" hack we talked about a while ago. Just because there's a tolerable workaround doesn't mean we can't do better. > but I just didn't want there to be confusion. Confusion cleared up, thanks. --- Roy |