Re: [Libmesh-users] question about Point locator

[Michael P. <mpo...@pu...>]

On 09/06/2017 02:41 PM, John Peterson wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Michael Povolotskyi 
> <mpo...@pu... <mailto:mpo...@pu...>> wrote:
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>     Dear Libmesh community,
>
>     I have a question about PointLocator.
>
>     Does it search among all active elements or among local active
>     elements?
>
>
>
> The PointLocatorBase::build() function takes a PointLocatorType enum 
> which can be one of {TREE, TREE_ELEMENTS, TREE_LOCAL_ELEMENTS}.
>
> The PointLocator in Meshbase is built with the TREE_ELEMENTS enumeration:
>
> _point_locator.reset (PointLocatorBase::build(TREE_ELEMENTS, 
> *this).release());
>
> so that will look search in all elements in the mesh by default.
>
> -- 
> John

Thank you, it is clear now.

Michael.