Re: [Libmesh-users] DistMesh with libMesh usage

[Paul T. B. <ptb...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:03 PM David Knezevic <dav...@ak...>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Amneet Bhalla <mai...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Is it possible to use DistMesh with libMesh? If so, is there an example
> > code?
> > I want to use DistMesh as it generates very symmetric (well shaped)
> > triangulation, which is important for an application that I am
> considering.
> >
> > http://persson.berkeley.edu/distmesh/
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > --Amneet
> >
>
>
> There is no direct interface to Distmesh. I would suggest that you generate
> your mesh in Distmesh, then convert it to a format that libMesh does
> support, like ExodusII, VTK, Abaqus format, or xda.


Agreed, this is this is probably the most straight forward thing to do, but
if you come up with a script (or decide to add a DistMesh reader, but
probably overkill), I'd personally like to capture that in libMesh proper.


> Note that xda is
> libMesh's own mesh format, and it is documented in the repository here
> <https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh/tree/master/doc/latex/xda_format>.
>
> Best,
> David
>
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