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External software for mesh generation

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I was wondering if there is some external software for generating a mesh. I would like to save an externally generated mesh to a file, so that I can afterwards access and work on the saved externally generated mesh from within a FEniCS program.

Any advice would be appreciated.

asked Oct 23, 2015 by kdma-at-dtu FEniCS Novice (590 points)

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People usually use gmsh - http://geuz.org/gmsh/ - there are conversion tools in DOLFIN to convert to the DOLFIN format.
It is also possible to save meshes from ParaView in XDMF format, which is useful sometimes.

answered Oct 23, 2015 by chris_richardson FEniCS Expert (31,740 points)
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