Export Mesh and Its Geometry Association

Cubit offers the option to export a complete finite element mesh, along with its association to an ACIS geometry model. This is useful if a 3rd party application is going to be used to modify the mesh after exporting from Cubit, and you want the geometry available to project to during the modification operations. The command is:

Export m2g '<fileroot>' [override]

The fileroot argument to this command is not a complete filename, rather, it is a full path and filename without the file extension. The export m2g command will write out:

An example usage of the export m2g command is the Sierra mesh_scale command. Sierra mesh_scale is a batch program which performs the same mesh scaling as can be performed in Cubit with the scale mesh command. When generating new nodes on the boundary of the mesh, Sierra mesh_scale projects the locations of the new nodes to the ACIS geometry model by leveraging the information exported by the export m2g command.