.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib:

How to use meshlib
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.. sectionauthor:: Tobias Meisel (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ)

The following jupyter notebooks provide some examples of how to use meshlib.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Read mesh from file (vtu or xdmf) into pyvista mesh">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib_plot_meshseries.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read mesh from file (vtu or xdmf) into pyvista mesh</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="For this example we create meshes from pyvista surfaces.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib_plot_meshlib_pyvista_input.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Creating meshes from pyvista surfaces</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example explains how to use functions from meshlib to calculate differences between meshes...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib_plot_calculate_diff.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="For this example we create meshes from surface layers.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib_plot_meshlib_vtu_input.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Creating meshes from vtu surface files</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="For this example we load a 2D meshseries from within the meshplotlib examples. In the meshplotl...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib_plot_sample_mesh_line.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Extract a 1D profile from 2D and plot it</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Creating a BHE mesh (Borehole Heat Exchanger)">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_howto_meshlib_plot_gen_bhe_mesh.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Creating a BHE mesh (Borehole Heat Exchanger)</div>
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.. toctree::
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   /auto_examples/howto_meshlib/plot_meshseries
   /auto_examples/howto_meshlib/plot_meshlib_pyvista_input
   /auto_examples/howto_meshlib/plot_calculate_diff
   /auto_examples/howto_meshlib/plot_meshlib_vtu_input
   /auto_examples/howto_meshlib/plot_sample_mesh_line
   /auto_examples/howto_meshlib/plot_gen_bhe_mesh