Importing and exporting meshes
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-In MESH there is a functionality allowing import/export of meshes from/to **MED**, **UNV** (I-DEAS 10), **DAT** (simple ascii format), **STL**, **GMF** (internal format of DISTENE products, namely MG-CADSurf, MG-Tetra and MG-Hexa algorithms) and **CGNS** format files. You can also export a group as a whole mesh.
+In MESH there is a functionality allowing import/export of meshes in follwing formats:
-**To import a mesh:**
+* **MED**,
+* **UNV** (I-DEAS 10),
+* **DAT** (simple ascii format),
+* **STL**,
+* **GMF** (internal format of DISTENE products from the MeshGems suite),
+* **CGNS**.
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+You can also export a group as a whole mesh.
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+*To import a mesh:*
#. From the **File** menu choose the **Import** item, from its sub-menu select the corresponding format (MED, UNV, STL, GMF and CGNS) of the file containing your mesh.
#. In the standard **Search File** dialog box find the file for import. It is possible to select multiple files to be imported all at once.
.. image:: ../images/meshimportmesh.png
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-**To export a mesh or a group:**
+*To export a mesh or a group:*
#. Select the object you wish to export.
#. From the **File** menu choose the **Export** item, from its sub-menu select the format (MED, UNV, DAT, STL, GMF and CGNS) of the file which will contain your exported mesh.
.. image:: ../images/meshexportgroupwarning.png
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-* **Don't show this warning anymore** check-box allows to switch off the warning. You can re-activate the warning in :ref:`group_export_warning_pref`.
+* **Don't show this warning anymore** check-box allows to switch off the warning. You can re-activate the warning in :ref:`Preferences <group_export_warning_pref>`.
There are additional parameters available at export to MED and SAUV format files.
.. _export_auto_groups:
-Auto Groups
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+* **Automatically create groups** check-box specifies whether to create groups of all mesh entities of available dimensions or not. The created groups have names like "Group_On_All_Nodes", "Group_On_All_Faces", etc. A default state of this check-box can be set in :ref:`Preferences <export_auto_groups_pref>`.
+* **Automatically define space dimension** check-box specifies whether to define space dimension for export by mesh configuration or not. Usually the mesh is exported as a mesh in 3D space, just as it is in Mesh module. The mesh can be exported as a mesh of a lower dimension in the following cases, provided that this check-box is checked:
- * **Automatically create groups** check-box specifies whether to create groups of all mesh entities of available dimensions or not. The created groups have names like "Group_On_All_Nodes", "Group_On_All_Faces", etc. A default state of this check-box can be set in :ref:`export_auto_groups_pref`.
- * **Automatically define space dimension** check-box specifies whether to define space dimension for export by mesh configuration or not. Usually the mesh is exported as a mesh in 3D space, just as it is in Mesh module. The mesh can be exported as a mesh of a lower dimension in the following cases, provided that this check-box is checked:
- * **1D**: if all mesh nodes lie on OX coordinate axis.
- * **2D**: if all mesh nodes lie in XOY coordinate plane.
+ * **1D**: if all mesh nodes lie on OX coordinate axis.
+ * **2D**: if all mesh nodes lie in XOY coordinate plane.
-**See Also** a sample TUI Script of an :ref:`tui_export_mesh` operation.
+**See Also** a sample TUI Script of an :ref:`Export Mesh <tui_export_mesh>` operation.
