Hi

Does any body know the info on "Plot3D -formatted" option given in gambit for importing mesh files. I want to read my grid files into gambit and therefore I was wondering whether this option is suitable or not. Please help me with the format of the files required for that option.

Paul maybe this is what you want.

you can find it in GAMBIT HELP-DOCUMENT The following GAMBIT neutral file illustrates the data formats described in Section C.1, above.

CONTROL INFO 1.2.1 ** GAMBIT NEUTRAL FILE Example PROGRAM: Gambit VERSION: 1.2.1 4 Jan 2000 13:07:49

NUMNP NELEM NGRPS NBSETS NDFCD NDFVL

60 116 1 2 3 3 ENDOFSECTION

NODAL COORDINATES 1.2.1

1 5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

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3 5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

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5 0.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

6 -5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

7 -5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

8 0.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

9 0.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

10 5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

11 5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

12 5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

13 5.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

14 5.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

15 5.0000000000e+00 -1.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

16 5.0000000000e+00 -1.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

17 5.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

18 5.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

19 5.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

20 5.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

21 5.0000000000e+00 -1.0000357386e+00 -2.1429854082e+00

22 5.0000000000e+00 -1.0000142940e+00 2.1428045712e+00

23 -5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

24 -5.0000000000e+00 -1.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

25 -5.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

26 -5.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

27 -5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

28 -5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

29 -5.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

30 -5.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

31 -5.0000000000e+00 -1.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

32 -5.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

33 -5.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00

34 -5.0000000000e+00 -9.9998719326e-01 -2.1429802624e+00

35 -5.0000000000e+00 -9.9999471598e-01 2.1428065305e+00

36 0.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

37 0.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

38 -1.4289352978e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 1.4308811671e+00

39 1.9997758876e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 2.0015626884e+00

40 1.4283714321e+00 -5.0000000000e+00 -1.4272124905e+00

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42 0.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 -5.0000000000e+00

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44 2.1429802623e+00 -9.9998719322e-01 -5.0000000000e+00

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46 0.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

47 0.0000000000e+00 3.0000000000e+00 5.0000000000e+00

48 -2.1429802624e+00 -9.9998719326e-01 5.0000000000e+00

49 2.1428065305e+00 -9.9999471598e-01 5.0000000000e+00

50 4.4312134385e-01 -2.6634261608e+00 3.1294517517e+00

51 3.1295456886e+00 -2.6647951603e+00 4.4566029310e-01

52 5.1142787933e-01 -2.6999440193e+00 -3.1325452328e+00

53 1.3718595728e-03 -1.0109794140e+00 2.7755575616e-16

54 3.4559090137e+00 -3.2225546837e+00 -3.4559490681e+00

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59 2.5000000000e+00 -5.3553391000e-01 2.5000000000e+00

60 0.0000000000e+00 4.0000000000e+00 0.0000000000e+00 ENDOFSECTION

ELEMENTS/CELLS 1.2.1

1 4 8 7 4 9 5 32 26 60

42

2 4 8 6 7 8 9 29 32 46

60

3 4 8 9 5 3 2 60 42 19

13

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19

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43

6 4 8 29 32 46 60 30 33 47

55

7 4 8 60 42 19 13 55 43 20

14

8 4 8 46 60 18 19 47 55 17

20

9 7 5 33 25 55 43 58

10 7 5 30 33 47 55 56

11 7 5 55 43 20 14 57

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110 6 4 54 21 12 11

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113 6 4 53 50 39 59

114 6 4 53 39 51 59

115 6 4 22 39 12 10

116 6 4 22 39 51 12 ENDOFSECTION

ELEMENT GROUP 1.2.1 GROUP: 1 ELEMENTS: 116 MATERIAL: 2 NFLAGS: 1

fluid

0

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110

111 112 113 114 115 116 ENDOFSECTION BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 1.2.1

element_side.1 1 14 0 6

3 4 3

4 4 3

7 4 3

8 4 3

100 6 3

110 6 3

115 6 4

35 6 2

47 6 4

16 6 3

28 6 1

52 6 2

34 6 1

70 6 3 ENDOFSECTION BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 1.2.1

node.2 0 16 0 24

27

23

4

6

29

30

31

28

24

25

26

7

32

33

34

35 ENDOFSECTION