On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Viviana Palacio Betancur < vpalac...@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Hello, > > Currently I'm working on calculating surface normals for a 3D mesh. The way > I have set up this is by extracting the surface mesh by using > mesh->get_boundary_info().sync(mesh_surf); > This gives me a 2D mesh that I can use for calculating element normals. > However, I haven't been able to establish the connection between the > element ids of the surface mesh to the ids of the original mesh. > The elements in mesh_surf will have an interior_parent() which points to the higher-dimensional element they came from. -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
