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Hi, In the edit mesh option, when I'm creating new nodes on an existing mesh, GID creates it using whatever spatial location I give. But, if I create the node on the edges of an existing element (say triangular element) how would add this node to the connectivity of that element? As I'm noticing, ev...

Is the *elemsconnec have ordered information about the nodal connectivities? I mean is the ordering consistent with the direction of the normal for all cases in GID? (clockwise/anticlockwise, talking about 2-d elements)

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Hi, I am trying to loop over nodes over some elements using the .bas file. When I am trying *nodes command inside the *elems loop, it loops over the entire nodes in my domain, is there a way to loop over only the element concerned? *loop elems *loop nodes //only nodes inside the corresponding elemen...

I had a couple of question about features of GID that I couldn't find. 1. Is it possible to convert a linear element to a quadratic one? I mean the spacial locations of the elements should be same, just linear element is converted to quadratic one. 2. Is it possible to split quadratic tetrahedra? I ...

Thanks for the clarification. It doesn't say always,the user manual had an example for quadrilateral quadratic mesh where it adds middle node at the mid-point so I got confused. So, apart from the curved line, say I have a surface with a curved edge, would the element whose nodes doesn't lie on the ...

Does the middle node lie exactly at the mid-point of the edge, say in case of quadratic tetrahedral meshes? The manual says this would be the case for structured meshes but would this hold true for unstructured meshes? I found some elements that had curved edges, that is, the middle node doesn't lie...

Hi, In the GID manual it says quadratic meshes (say tetrahedral) would have a middle node at the mid-point of the two vertices for each edge. Is that always true? I found some elements that were not following this criteria. I know there's an inbuilt script that can bring the centre node to the middl...