msh2vtu#

Section author: Dominik Kern (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)

msh2vtu is a command line application that converts a Gmsh mesh for use in OGS by extracting domain-, boundary- and physical group-submeshes and saves them in vtu-format.

Note that all mesh entities should belong to physical groups.

Supported element types:

  • lines (linear and quadratic) in 1D

  • triangles and quadrilaterals (linear and quadratic) in 2D

  • tetra- and hexahedrons (linear and quadratic) in 3D

Command line usage#

Prepares a Gmsh-mesh for use in OGS by extracting domain-, boundary- and physical group-submeshes, and saves them in vtu-format. Note that all mesh entities should belong to physical groups.

usage: msh2vtu [-h] [-g] [-r] [-a] [-d DIM] [-o OUTPUT_PATH] [-p PREFIX] [-z] [-s] [-v] filename

Positional Arguments#

filename

Gmsh mesh file (*.msh) as input data

Named Arguments#

-g, --ogs

rename “gmsh:physical” to “MaterialIDs” for domains and change type of corresponding cell data to INT32

Default: False

-r, --rdcd

renumber domain cell data, physical IDs (cell data) of domains get numbered beginning with zero

Default: False

-a, --ascii

save output files (*.vtu) in ascii format

Default: False

-d, --dim

spatial dimension (1, 2 or 3), trying automatic detection, if not given

Default: 0

-o, --output_path

path of output files; if not given, then it defaults to cwd

Default: “”

-p, --prefix

basename of output files; if not given, then it defaults to basename of inputfile

Default: “”

-z, --delz

deleting z-coordinate, for 2D-meshes with z=0, note that vtu-format requires 3D points

Default: False

-s, --swapxy

swap x and y coordinate

Default: False

-v, --version

show program’s version number and exit

API usage#

In addition, it may be used as Python module:

from ogstools.msh2vtu import msh2vtu

msh2vtu(
    input_filename="my_mesh.msh",
    output_path="",
    output_prefix="my_meshname",
    dim=0,
    delz=False,
    swapxy=False,
    rdcd=True,
    ogs=True,
    ascii=False,
    log_level="DEBUG",
)

Examples#

A geological model (2D) of a sediment basin by Christian Silbermann and a terrain model (3D) from the official Gmsh tutorials (x2).

msh2vtu example/geolayers_2d.msh generates the following output files:

  • geolayers_2d_boundary.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_domain.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_RockBed.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_SedimentLayer1.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_SedimentLayer2.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_SedimentLayer3.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_Bottom.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_Left.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_Right.vtu

  • geolayers_2d_physical_group_Top.vtu