Re: [Libmesh-users] _ss_id_to_name works for Gmsh

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

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 5:45 PM edgar <edg...@cr...> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I know that some times, the documentation is hard to maintain, and you
> may already know what I will tell you now. I just wanted to let you know
> that `_ss_id_to_name' (from `BoundaryInfo') works on a mesh that I
> created with physical groups in Gmsh. This code
>
> ┌────
> │ for (std::string &gtpt_boundary_name :
> │      gtpt_boundary_names) {
> │     std::cout << "Boundary name: " << gtpt_boundary_name
> │               << "  id: "
> │               << my_mesh_boundaries.get_id_by_name (
> │                    gtpt_boundary_name)
> │               << std::endl;
> │ }
> └────
>
> produces
>
> ┌────
> │ Boundary name: left  id: 4
> │ Boundary name: back  id: 3
> │ Boundary name: bottom  id: 2
> │ Boundary name: top  id: 5
> └────
>
> Needless to say that `gtpt_boundary_names' holds a series of strings
> with boundary names and `my_mesh_boundaries' is a
> `libMesh::BoundaryInfo' object. The documentation states:
>
>        Currently this is only implemented for ExodusII
>
> Just trying to help. Please, don't get mad at me.
>

Thanks for your report, I updated the docs in libmesh fe33016c4.

-- 
John