NETGEN(1)

💖 NETGEN(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for netgen — and also lowkey for bar?? yeah the original says that, we don't make the rules, we just report them ✨

this one lives in the General Commands Manual section, so you know it's giving serious main-character CLI energy 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

netgen — automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

netgen [OPTIONS...]  [file.geo]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ngl this manual page documents the netgen and bar commands briefly — just the highlights, the little trailer, the teaser 🎀

also real talk: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one. we're doing the lord's work fr fr 🙏

so what is netgen? it's an automatic mesh generation tool for two and three dimensions. it generates triangular or quadrilateral meshes in 2D, and tetrahedral meshes in 3D 💫

the input for 2D is described by spline curves. the input for 3D problems is either defined by constructive solid geometries, or by the standard STL file format. and it's not just a one-trick pony — netgen contains modules for mesh optimization and hierarchical mesh refinement. curved elements are supported of arbitrary order, which is honestly iconic 👑

Homepage: https://ngsolve.org/ 🌈

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -geofile=filename — input geometry file (alternative: netgen filename)
• -meshfile=filename — output mesh file
• -verycoarse, -coarse, -moderate, -fine, -veryfine — automatic mesh-size selection, from the vibes-are-chunky end all the way to the every-detail-matters end ✨
• --meshfiletype=type — filetype of the output file; default is netgen file
• --batchmode — run in batchmode (no hanging out in the interactive era 💀)
• -V — print additional information

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

gmsh (1)

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Christophe Prud'homme prudhomm@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others) 💜

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL 📄

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up, no crumbs 💅 and just so we're cute and complete: this was the NETGEN(1) page, from the General Commands Manual, and we're signing off with that same NETGEN(1) energy at the bottom — mwah 💖✨🦋