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NAME
geo - plot a finite element mesh (rheolef-7.1)
SYNOPSIS
geo [options] file[.geo[.gz]]
DESCRIPTION
Plot or upgrade a finite element mesh.
EXAMPLES
Plot a mesh:
geo square.geo
geo box.geo
geo box.geo -full
Plot a mesh into a file:
geo square.geo -image-format png
Convert from a old geo file format to the new one:
geo -upgrade - < square-old.geo > square.geo
See below for the geo file format specification. The old file format does not contains
edges and faces connectivity in 3d geometries, or edges connectivity in 2d geometries. The
converter add it automatically into the upgraded file format. Conversely, the old file
format is useful when combined with a translator from another file format that do not
provides edges and faces connectivity.
INPUT FILE SPECIFICATION
filename
Specifies the name of the file containing the input mesh. The '.geo' suffix extension
is assumed.
-
Read mesh on standard input instead on a file.
-name string
When mesh comes from standard input, the mesh name is not known and is set to 'output'
by default. This option allows one to change this default. This option is useful when
dealing with output formats (graphic, format conversion) that creates auxiliary files,
based on this name.
-Idir
-I dir
Add dir to the Rheolef file search path. This mechanism initializes a search path
given by the environment variable RHEOPATH. If the environment variable RHEOPATH is
not set, the default value is the current directory.
-check
Check the mesh file: numbering, bounds and that for all element, its orientation is
positive.
INPUT FORMAT OPTIONS
-if format
-input-format format
Load mesh in a given file format. Supported input formats are: geo, bamg, vtk.
RENDER SPECIFICATION
-gnuplot
Use the gnuplot tool. This is the default for 1D geometry.
-paraview
Use the paraview tool. This is the default for 2D and 3D geometries.
RENDER OPTIONS
-[no]lattice
When using a high order geometry, the lattice inside any element appears. Default is
on.
-[no]full
All internal edges appears, for 3d meshes. Default is off.
-[no]fill
Fill mesh faces using light effects, when available.
-[no]stereo
Rendering mode suitable for red-blue anaglyph 3D stereoscopic glasses. Option only
available with paraview.
-[no]shrink
shrink elements (with paraview only).
-[no]cut
cut by plane and clip (with paraview only).
-[no]showlabel
Show or hide labels, boundary domains and various annotations. By default, domains are
showed with a specific color.
-round [*float*]
Round the input up to the specified precision. This option, combined with -geo, leads
to a round filter. Useful for non-regression test purpose, in order to compare
numerical results between files with a limited precision, since the full double
precision is machine-dependent.
OUTPUT FORMAT OPTIONS
-geo
output mesh on standard output stream in geo text file format, instead of plotting it.
-upgrade
Convert from a old geo file format to the new one.
-gmsh
Output mesh on standard output stream in gmsh text file format, instead of plotting
it.
-image-format string
The argument is any valid image format, such as bitmap png, jpg, gif, tif, ppm, bmp or
vectorial pdf, eps, ps, svg image file formats. this option can be used with the
paraview and the gnuplot renders. The output file is e.g. basename.png when basename
is the name of the mesh, or can be set with the -name option.
-resolution int int
The two arguments represent a couple of sizes, for the image resolution, e.g. 1024 and
768 for a 1024x768 image size. This option can be used together with the -image-format
for any of the bitmap image formats. This option requires the paraview render.
OTHERS OPTIONS
-subdivide int
Subdivide each edge in k parts, where k is the prescribed argument. The new vertices
are numbered so that they coincide with the Pk Lagrange nodes. It can be combined with
the -geo option to get the subdivided mesh. In that case, default value is 1, i.e. no
subdividing. It can also be combined with a graphic option, such that -gnuplot or
paraview: When dealing with a curved high order geometry, k corresponds to the number
of points per edge used to draw a curved element. In that case, this option is
activated by default and value is the curved mesh order.
-add-boundary
Check for a domain named 'boundary'. If this domain does not exists, extract the
boundary of the geometry and append it to the domain list. This command is useful for
mesh converted from generators, as bamg, that cannot have more than one domain
specification per boundary edge.
-rz
-zr
Specifies the coordinate system. Useful when converting from bamg or gmsh format, that
do not have any coordinate system specification.
-[no]verbose
Print messages related to graphic files created and command system calls (this is the
default).
`-[no]clean
Clear temporary graphic files (this is the default).
-[no]execute
Execute graphic command (this is the default). The -noexecute variant is useful in
conjunction with the -verbose and -noclean options in order to modify some render
options by hand.
-dump
Used for debug purpose.
INQUIRE OPTIONS
-size
-n-element
Print the mesh size, i.e. the number of elements and then exit.
-n-vertex
Print the number of elements and then exit.
-sys-coord
Print the coordinate system and then exit.
-hmin
-hmax
Print the smallest (resp. largest) edge length and then exit.
-xmin
-xmax
Print the bounding box lower-left (resp. top-right) corner and exit.
-min-element-measure
-max-element-measure
Print the smallest (resp. largest) element measure and then exit.
FILE FORMAT CONVERSION
For the gmsh and bamg mesh generators, automatic file conversion is provided by the
msh2geo and bamg2geo commands (see bamg2geo_1 and msh2geo_1 ).
For conversion from the .vtk legacy ascii file format to the .geo one, simply writes:
geo -if vtk -geo - < input.vtk > output.geo
THE GEO FILE FORMAT
This is the default mesh file format. It contains two entities, namely a mesh and a list
of domains. The mesh entity starts with the mesh keyword, that should be at the beginning
of a line. It is followed by the geo format version number: the current mesh format
version number is 4. Next comes the header, containing global information: the space
dimension (e.g. 1, 2 or 3), the number of nodes and the number of elements, for each type
of element (tetrahedron, etc). When dimension is three, the number of faces (triangles,
quadrangles) is specified, and then, when dimension is two or three, the number of edges
is also specified. Follows the node coordinates list and the elements connectivity list.
Each element starts with a letter indicating the element type:
letter | element type
-------|-------------
p | point
e | edge
t | triangle
q | quadrangle
T | tetrahedron
P | prism
H | hexahedron
Then, for each element, comes the vertex indexes. A vertex index is numbered in the C-
style, i.e. the first index started at 0 and the larger one is the number of vertices
minus one. A sample mesh writes:
mesh
4
header
dimension 2
nodes 4
triangles 2
edges 5
end header
0 0
1 0
1 1
0 1
t 0 1 3
t 1 2 3
e 0 1
e 1 2
e 2 3
e 3 0
e 1 3
Note that information about edges for 2d meshes and faces for 3d one are required for
maintaining P2 and higher order approximation fields in a consistent way: degrees of
freedom associated to sides requires that sides are well defined.
The second entity is a list of domains, that finishes with the end of file. A domain
starts with the domain keyword, that should be at the beginning of a line. It is followed
by the domain name, a simple string. Then, comes the domain format version: the current
domain version number is 2. Next, the domain dimension and its number of elements.
Finally, the list of elements: they are specified by the element index in the mesh,
preceded by its orientation. A minus sign specifies that the element (generally a side)
has the opposite orientation, while the plus sign is omitted. A sample domain list writes:
domain
bottom
2 1 1
0
domain
top
2 1 1
2
Copy and paste the previous sample mesh data in a file, e.g. 'square.geo'. Be carreful for
the 'mesh' and 'domain' to be at the beginning of a line. Then enter:
geo square.geo
and the mesh is displayed.
THE SIMPLIFIED GEO FILE FORMAT
Information about edges for 2d meshes and faces for 3d one is not provided by most mesh
generators (e.g. gmsh or bamg). It could be complex to build this list, so a simplified
file format is also supported, without faces and/or edges connectivity, and the geo
command proposes to build it automatically and save it in a more complete, upgraded geo
file.
The simplified version of the previous mesh is:
mesh
4
header
dimension 2
nodes 4
triangles 2
end header
0 0
1 0
1 1
0 1
t 0 1 3
t 1 2 3
The domain list is no more able to refer to existing sides: edges are simply listed by
their complete connectivity, thanks to the domain format version number 1. For the
previous example, we have:
domain
bottom
1 1 1
e 0 1
domain
top
1 1 1
e 2 3
Copy and paste the previous simplified sample mesh data in a file, e.g. square0.geo. Be
carreful for the mesh and domain keywords to be at the beginning of a line. Then enter:
geo -upgrade -geo square0.geo
and the previous mesh with its complete connectivity is displayed: edges has been
automatically identified and numbered, and domains now refers to edge indexes.
IMPLEMENTATION
This documentation has been generated from file main/bin/geo.cc
AUTHOR
Pierre Saramito <Pierre.Saramito@imag.fr>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2018 Pierre Saramito <Pierre.Saramito@imag.fr> GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you
are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
law.