Fantastic-- thanks very much for the help.

Bill

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Geordie McBain <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2011/6/14 Bill Greene <[email protected]>:
> > This seems like it might be a newbie question but I can't find an
> > answer in the docs or previous postings.
> >
> > If I create a simple square surface and push the 2D Mesh
> > button, I get a nice triangular mesh. But when I save this
> > mesh, as an abaqus file for example, I get both 1D and 2D
> > elements included.
> >
> > How do I tell gmsh not to include these 1D elements in my
> > 2D mesh?
>
> Define the two-dimensional domain as a Physical Surface; see
>
>
> http://geuz.org/gmsh/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#Elementary-vs-physical-entities
>
> If you define any physical entities, then Gmsh will only save their
> elements in the mesh; define none and Gmsh saves all elements.
>
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