Utilities for creating and manipulating Mathematica ElementMesh objects.
The following description is for people who just want to use the package functionality and are not interested in package development. To use MeshTools package you need Mathematica version 11. or later.
MeshTools package is released in the .paclet file format, which contains code,
documentation and other necessary resources.
Download the latest .paclet file from the
repository "releases" page
to your computer and install it by evaluating the following command in the Mathematica:
(* This built-in package is usually loaded automatically at kernel startup. *)
Needs["PacletManager`"]
(* Path to .paclet file downloaded from repository "releases" page. *)
PacletInstall["full/path/to/MeshTools-X.Y.Z.paclet"]This will permanently install the MeshTools package to $UserBasePacletsDirectory.
To update the documentation it may be necessary to restart Mathematica.
Mathematica will always use the latest installed version of package and all installed versions
can be enumerated by evaluating PacletFind["MeshTools"].
You can get more detailed information about the package with PacletInformation["MeshTools"].
All versions can be uninstalled with:
PacletUninstall["MeshTools"]After you have installed the paclet, load it to Mathematica session with Get.
Then you can, for example, make a ElementMesh object from basic geometric shape and visualize it.
Get["MeshTools`"]
outerMesh = AnnulusMesh[{0, 0}, {2/3, 1}, {0, 3 Pi/2}, {24, 4}];
innerMesh = AnnulusMesh[{0, 0}, {1/2, 2/3}, {0, 3 Pi/2}, {24, 2}];
mesh = MergeMesh[{
AddMeshMarkers[outerMesh, "MeshElementsMarker" -> 1],
AddMeshMarkers[innerMesh, "MeshElementsMarker" -> 2]
}];
mesh["Wireframe"[
"MeshElementStyle" -> FaceForm /@ {ColorData[112, 3], ColorData[112, 2]}]
]
To access the documentation, open the notebook interface help viewer and search for MeshTools. The first hit will be a summary page enumerating the most commonly used functions in MeshTools that enable you to perform the following tasks:
- Create structured meshes of quadrilaterals or hexahedra over basic geometric shapes
- Perform geometric transformation on meshes
- Merge different meshes
Please use the repository issues page to submit bugs or feature ideas.
Contributions to this repository are very welcome. Guidelines on how to build paclet file from source code can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md file.