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betti volume info

What a volume mesh is: cells by kind, regions, boundary tags, whether it is valid, and its quality.

volume module Granted on request: see access and licensing.

Usage

Shell
betti volume info [flags] mesh

In a script this is volume.info(…), its flags as keywords; for coding agents, the tool volume_info.

Examples

Shell
betti volume info part.msh

Formats, by the extension of mesh

.bdfNastran bulk data, as .nas
.inpAbaqus input: C3D4, C3D10, C3D6 and C3D8, regions as element sets, boundary tags as element surfaces
.mshGmsh 4.1, ASCII: regions as physical volumes, boundary tags as physical surfaces
.nasNastran bulk data: CTETRA, CPYRAM, CPENTA and CHEXA, regions as PIDs, boundary faces as shells of PIDs of their own
.vtuVTK unstructured grid: cells, regions in the cell data array "region"; no boundary tags (use .msh for those)
polyMeshan OpenFOAM polyMesh folder (a path ending in polyMesh): every cell by its faces, regions as cell zones, boundary tags as patches, walls but those named inlet, outlet or symmetry

Output flags

FlagTakesDefaultMeaning
-jsonswitchoffprint the result as JSON
-qswitchoffprint nothing but errors
-skipnamesnoneswitch off steps of the work by their names, separated by commas, as the built-in help lists them
-vswitchoffalso show the stages of each step, and their times

This page is generated from betti help volume info. Lengths are absolute, or a percentage of the part's bounding-box diagonal, as in -size 1%.