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[Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:58:24PM -0500, Anders Logg wrote:
> Johan, there is a comment in Elasticity.form:
> 
>     # Dimension (FFC should provide this)
>     d = len(v)
> 
> The proper way to do this is to ask the finite element:
> 
> d = element.shapedim()   # number of dimensions for Omega (2 or 3)
> d = element.tensordim(0) # number of vector components for functions
> 
> I could make FFC add a line d = element.shapedim() automatically, but
> I don't think that's a good solution.
> 
> /Anders
> 

Ok, my bad. I only saw spacedim() and tensordim() which were not what
I wanted (the dimension of Omega). Thanks for clearing it up.

  Johan