81. `plugins.mesh_io` —¶

You need to have python3-meshio installed to use this module. Source available from https://github.com/nschloe/meshio

81.1. Functions defined in module plugins.mesh_io¶

plugins.mesh_io.writeMesh(fn, M)[source]¶

Write a mesh to one of many file formats.

Parameters:

fn (path_like) – The output file name. The extentension should be any of the formats accepted by meshio (https://pypi.org/project/meshio/).
mesh (Mesh) – The Mesh to be written to the file.

Examples

>>> f = Path('test_filewrite.off')
>>> M = Mesh(eltype='quad4').convert('tri3-u')
>>> writeMesh(f, M)
>>> print(f.read_text())
OFF
# Created by meshio

4 2 0

0.0 0.0 0.0
1.0 0.0 0.0
1.0 1.0 0.0
0.0 1.0 0.0
3  0 1 2
3  2 3 0

>>> f.remove()