/*! \page about_meshes_page About meshes \n \b MESH represents a discretization of a geometrical CAD model into a set of entities with a simple topology. Meshes are stored in DAT, MED, UNV, STL, CGNS, GMF and SAUVE formats and can be \subpage importing_exporting_meshes_page "imported from and exported to" the file in these formats. It is possible to \subpage constructing_meshes_page "construct meshes" on the basis of geometrical shapes produced in the GEOM module. It is also possible to \subpage constructing_submeshes_page "construct mesh on a part of the geometrical object", for example, a face, with different meshing parameters than the whole mesh. Several created meshes can be \subpage building_compounds_page "combined into another mesh". The whole mesh or its part can be \subpage copy_mesh_page "copied" into another mesh. Meshing parameters of meshes and sub-meshes can be \subpage editing_meshes_page "edited", then only the mesh part depending on the changed parameters will be re-computed. Meshes can be edited using the MESH functions destined for \ref modifying_meshes_page "modification" of generated meshes. The \b topology of a mesh is described by the relationships between its entities including:         These entities are considered as topological entities and they don't imply any geometric representation. Only \b Nodes reference geometric representations of points with definite coordinates. The node entity contains additional information about its position in the space and its relations with the meshed CAD model. Its position could be described in the following way:

Connections

Each mesh entity bounds 0 or more mesh entities of higher dimension. In the same way each mesh entity is bounded by 0 or more mesh entities of lower dimension: You can notice that there are two types of connections: \b inverse and \b direct connections.

Inverse connections

This relationship has a particularity that the order of bounded entities has not a direct meaning. Also the number of bounded entities is not fixed. \b Example: The edges surrounding a node. The 3rd edge has no more sense that the 5th one.

Direct connections

This relationship has a particularity that the order of bounding entities is meaningful. The number of bounding entities is fixed and depends on the type of the entity (hexahedron, tetrahedron,?). \b Example: An edge is composed of two nodes. A face is composed of 3 or 4 edges depending if we are dealing with triangles or quadrangles. The connections are not only restricted to entities of one dimension higher or lower. For example some algorithms may be interested to retrieve all the faces surrounding a node. */