> On 10 Oct 2017, at 18:58, phillip mobley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Christophe, > > Thank you again for responding to my message. > > I see now, a MLine is used for the 1D case and a MEdge is used in the 2D > case.So since I am dealing exclusively with 2D meshes, would I really need > the MLine class? Or will there be cases when a 2D mesh uses the MLine class? >
Typically yes: when you save a 2D mesh it is interesting to also save the 1D mesh on (parts of the) boundary. > I believe that I asked this in my previous message, but I will ask it again > here, > > could you go a little bit more into detail of what you mean by "This will not > expose any of the internal complexity of the code."? > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Christophe Geuzaine <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Phillip, > > No, MLine is a mesh element of type line (a "1D" element). MEdge is a > topological edge, joining two vertices. > > There is currently no documentation of the API; one of our objectives for > Gmsh 4.0 is to design and distribute a high-level C API. This will not expose > any of the internal complexity of the code. > > Christophe > > > On 9 Oct 2017, at 04:31, phillip mobley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I have another question, this time it is the difference between MLine and > > MEdge. > > > > Is the MLine used for the solver of GMSH and is the MEgde used in drawing > > the mesh on the GUI? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gmsh mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh > > > -- > Prof. Christophe Geuzaine > University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science > http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine > > Free software: http://gmsh.info | http://getdp.info | http://onelab.info > > -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine Free software: http://gmsh.info | http://getdp.info | http://onelab.info _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
