Hi all,
I am updating this thread to mention that a new python parser came in with the new version 7.2: "parserGMSH.py" by HRW. It can convert a gmsh file into a slf file.
Please also note that Pat Prodanovic's python utility pputils (
github.com/pprodano/pputils) contains scripts for preparing input geometry (points) files to gmsh from GIS. It is well described in his paper from the 2015 TUC and it is a great tool.
I will just give a feedback here on parserGMSH.py that I tested to convert large meshes into selafin. Gmsh was used instead of BlueKenue for its efficiency in dealing with large number of elements. I could convert a 7 Mio element gmsh-mesh in about 2 min using the new parserGMSH.py script but it did crash due to memory limitation when I tried something crazy: converting a 29 Mio element gmsh-mesh into selafin. I was testing it on my DELL i7 16 GB RAM.
Anyway, this new script proves to be very useful for most range of mesh sizes
! Thank you for this addition.
Best regards
PL