Re: [Libmesh-users] Error Importing Exodus Mesh

[John P. <jwp...@gm...>]

On Feb 27, 2013, at 12:23 PM, "Paul T. Bauman" <ptb...@gm...> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Carlos Acosta <bd...@my...> wrote:
> 
>> but when I import an exodus mesh I get errors
>> recognizing the exodus format.
>> It says:
>> 
>> 
>> ERROR! Unrecognized element type_str: SHELL4
> 
> Hmm, this is strange because Exodus reader should understand SHELL4.

But it doesn't quote work right: shell4's actually have six "sides" and so some of our side id mapping stuff doesn't work.  Definitely stick to Quad4's.  I think I will patch this to go back to making shell4 throw an error, maybe something like "please export quad4 from cubit instead"...



> Could
> you rerun with METHOD=dbg and see if an assert is tripped? How big is your
> mesh?

It's possible he's using an old version, maybe a sourceforge SVN version?


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