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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.
Usage
betti volume info [flags] meshIn a script this is volume.info(…), its flags as keywords; for coding agents, the tool volume_info.
Examples
betti volume info part.mshFormats, by the extension of mesh
| .bdf | Nastran bulk data, as .nas |
|---|---|
| .inp | Abaqus input: C3D4, C3D10, C3D6 and C3D8, regions as element sets, boundary tags as element surfaces |
| .msh | Gmsh 4.1, ASCII: regions as physical volumes, boundary tags as physical surfaces |
| .nas | Nastran bulk data: CTETRA, CPYRAM, CPENTA and CHEXA, regions as PIDs, boundary faces as shells of PIDs of their own |
| .vtu | VTK unstructured grid: cells, regions in the cell data array "region"; no boundary tags (use .msh for those) |
| polyMesh | an 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
| Flag | Takes | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
-json | switch | off | print the result as JSON |
-q | switch | off | print nothing but errors |
-skip | names | none | switch off steps of the work by their names, separated by commas, as the built-in help lists them |
-v | switch | off | also 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%.