You can create a group where each member is a field with different element
types.  Depending on the data, you may or may not see artifacts at the
boundaries.  So, you would have to determine if this is useful or not.

Although the DX data model can represent a variety of element types, most
modules only know how to deal with triangles and quads in 2d, and
tetrahedra and hexahedra in 3d.




Chris Pelkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 12/14/2000
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>Hello,
>
>I am developing CFD application in which there are hybrid
>grid( triangles & quads in 2D) and ( tetrahedra, hexahedra,
>pentahedra etc) in the same file. Can someone suggest
>how to use DX formet to write such data. In the examples,
>I could only see homogenous cells.
>
>Waiting for quick response.
>
>
>Chaman Singh Verma


DX requires homeogeneity of elements within the connections array. So you
must reduce each set to lowest common object, triangles (for 2D surfaces,
whether they are in 2 or 3 space), tetrahedra for volumes.

Chris Pelkie
Vice President/Scientific Visualization Producer
Conceptual Reality Presentations, Inc.
30 West Meadow Drive
Ithaca, NY 14850
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