VMTKMESHREADER(1)

🌸 VMTKMESHREADER 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to vmtkmeshreader, a User Commands icon in manual section 1. she's a vmtk script 💅 and she is literally just here to read a mesh and store it — no drama, no cap. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

vmtkmeshreader — vmtk script vmtkmeshreader. that's it, that's the name, she said what she said 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe 🦋: Automatic piping vmtkmeshreader, then Parsing options vmtkmeshreader. the whole flow is automated, she handles it, you just tell her what you want.

vmtkmeshreader : read a mesh and stores it in a vtkUnstructuredGrid object — that's the main character mission statement fr fr. she reads, she stores, she slays ✨

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🔥 Input arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id. lowkey the little name tag for the script 🏷️
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self. it's giving self-awareness 💅
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — disable execution and piping. flip this to 1 and she's on do-not-disturb 🙈
• -f Format (str,1) in ['vtkxml', 'vtkxmlp', 'vtk', 'fdneut', 'ngneut', 'tecplot', 'tetgen', 'gambit'] — file format. quick translation for the girlies: fdneut is the FIDAP neutral format, and ngneut is the Netgen neutral format 🧚
• -guessformat GuessFormat (bool,1); default=1 — guess file format from extension. she's a detective, she just knows 🔍
• -i Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the input mesh. the thing you're feeding her, bestie 🫶
• -ifile InputFileName (str,1) — input file name 🎀
• -ghostnodes GhostNodes (bool,1); default=1 — store all nodes for 9-noded quads, 7-noded triangles, 27-noded hexahedra, 18-noded wedges; otherwise, store them as 8-noded quads, 6-noded triangles, 20-noded hexahedra, 15-noded wedges — fdneut only ⭐
• -volumeelementsonly VolumeElementsOnly (bool,1); default=0 — only read volume elements — fdneut and ngneut 💀
• -entityidsarray CellEntityIdsArrayName (str,1); default=CellEntityIds — name of the array where entity ids have to be stored — ngneut and tetgen 🌈
• -ofile MeshOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Mesh writer. where the glow-up gets saved 💾

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👑 Output arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id. yes she shows up again, she contains multitudes 💜
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self. iconic behaviour honestly
• -o Mesh (vtkUnstructuredGrid,1) — the output mesh. this is the moment, the reveal, the serve 🔥
• -entityidsarray CellEntityIdsArrayName (str,1); default=CellEntityIds — name of the array where entity ids have been stored — ngneut and tetgen ✨

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heads up bestie 🎀 — if you're running fdneut or ngneut, some of those flags only hit for those formats specifically. and the input -entityidsarray says ids have to be stored while the output one says ids have been stored — past tense, she's done, she's finished, periodt 💅

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and that's the whole page, no skips, no cuts, we ate 🍽️✨ this was vmtkmeshreader version 1.5, dated April 2026, from the User Commands collection — love her, follow her, run her responsibly 🫶💖🌸