Although you can represent mixed types with the data model, many modules won't know what to do per se. But there are several approaches, but you'll have to experiment with them to see what works and what artifacts are visible. For example, you could create a group (Collect) where one member is tets and the other is cubes (hexahedra). DX will allow you to use that group for standard operations. Look at boundaries for artifacts. Another approach is to decompose everything to tetrahedra and CollectMultiGrid the various pieces. That will more likely eliminate problems at the interfaces between the different types.
Per my earlier note, prisms and pyramids are not supported natively by all modules. Steve Ettorre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 08/14/2000 07:03:36 PM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> cc: Subject: [opendx-users] dx with mixed elements Hi- I am new to opendx and am looking to use it for visualizing flow field results from an unstructured grid CFD code. I want to be able to look at results from grids with mixed element types (i.e. combinations of standard element shapes: tets, prisms, hexes, etc.). I would like to get some recommendations on how to best go about interfacing with opendx for this purpose. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated. If you have any references you can point me to these would be very welcomed also. TIA, Steve -- Steve Ettorre e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
