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[Andy Ray Terrel <aterrel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're about to use DOLFIN with another (propriatory) system, and therefore
> need to convert meshes to and from different formats. To accomodate this, we
> have generalized the dolfin-convert script, adding a consept of a polymorphic
> data handler that could either write DOLFIN's xml mesh files, or through
> subclassing, write to other mesh formats. As a matter of fact, we can
> implement a writer constructing a DOLFIN mesh on the fly, without going
> through the file system.
>
> If this is of any use to the DOLFIN community, we'll be happy to share it.
>
> Ola
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I would love to get this code.  Everytime I sit down work on a problem 
with someone else I get to write a converter between the different 
formats. It seems that it should be called mesh_convert and 
dolfin_convert just be a wrapper script. 

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Andy Terrel
Computer Science Dept
University of Chicago
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