Hi René, Indeed, we forgot to add "inp" in the strings recognized by the "-format" options on the command line. This is now fixed in svn.
But the simpler solution is to actually not use the "-format" option at all: by default gmsh selects the format depending on the extension of the output file name, so you can simply do gmsh plate.step -3 -o plate.inp Cheers, Christophe On 13 Aug 2012, at 16:57, René Wohlgethan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My Name is René and I am very new working with Gmsh. > > My aim is to work with it by using the command line and integrate into a 3rd > party software for optimization (modeFRONTIER). Here I want to use it in > combination with Calculix - > > Therefore I found out that Gmsh can export *.inp files and this works very > well if I do it manually, but whenerver I try to run this by command line it > says: File format unknown. > > > The commands I use are: > > "C:\gmsh-2.6.1-Windows\gmsh" Plate.step -3 -clcurv -refine -hoOptimize > ---- works fine > > > but this : > > > > "C:\gmsh-2.6.1-Windows\gmsh" Plate.step -3 -clcurv -refine -hoOptimize > -format "inp" -- gives out: FATAL: Unknown mesh format. > > > while with the other file formats the command stricly above works again. > > > > So one questions: > > 1) What did I do wrong, or is it a bug? > > Thank you very much in advance and best regards, > > René > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
