Plug-in extension

This section explains a new way to expand GiD capabilities: the plug-in mechanism. Plug-ins which should be used by GiD shoud be present inside the $GID/plugins directory.

There are two possible plugin mechanisms:

By GiD version 10.1.2d following plug-ins are provided:

Look into $GID/plugins/Import/Docs for the plug-in development manual in Adobe's PDF format or in HTML format. This manual describes the dynamic library plug-in mechanism to import objects and results into GiD's postprocess.