[Paraview] tetgen mesh

[wastrel at gmail.com]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply. It seems pretty similar. I can merge the outputs
(element and node files) from Tetgen and then give a try to the plug-in you
developed. Let me know if you are interested for sharing.

Below is my guess on the mesh file format. Is it right?
E4T(Element type)     1(Element Number)  4913  5569  4914  5530 (4 Nodes)
    2(Material type)

By the way, is it possible to read Abaqus mesh files into Paraview, or
export mesh files in Paraview to a format which Abaqus could recognize?

Thanks in advance,

Ken



On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> I'm not familiar with the formats of the files you sent us.  I'm not that
> familiar with tetgen either so it's possible that we may be talking about
> the same software or we may not.  In any case, the tetgen output grid file
> that I have looks like the following at the top:
> MESH3D
> E4T     1  4913  5569  4914  5530     2
> E4T     2  4913  4953  4914  5569     2
> E4T     3  4913  4952  5569  5568     2
> E4T     4  4913  4952  4953  5569     2
> E4T     5  4913  4912  5568  5528     2
>
> The nodes are listed second and look like:
> ND     1 1672.1247729534 1357.9324205486 -14.27143712838
> ND     2 1580.6340102853 1340.230370113 -3.885760029157
> ND     3 1580.6340102853 1340.230370113 -14.12243425846
>
> These are the files that we are able to read.  Does this look like it's
> from the same software?
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:28 PM, <wastrel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. See the attachment for an example mesh.
>>
>> By the way, is it possible to read Abaqus mesh files to Paraview, or
>> export mesh files in Paraview to a format which Abaqus could recognize?
>>
>> Have a good one,
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> I think there may be a tetgen reader that we've developed for a different
>>> project.  I may be able to move it to ParaView/VTK but will have to check
>>> with the sponsor.  Could you send a small sample file so that I can make
>>> sure that it's the same file type?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:39 AM, <wastrel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Dose anyone have any experience in reading meshes (*.node *.ele *.face)
>>>> generated with Tetgen in Paraview?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>
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