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Good day,

I know that GID generates one file per each .bas file that it finds within the problem type folder but what if I want to generate a number of files dependent on the input of the problem type? i.e I want one mesh for a solid and a different mesh for a fluid on separate files.

Until now I can generate a big mesh with the description of both mesh and solids and I can arrange them in groups but I don't really know how to tell gid to print them in separate files.

Should I do this throgh a TCL command called printMesh for example? To this function i would pass elements and id and it prints mesh. Is there a more direct way?

By the way I would like to thank you for your kind and quick replies to my past inquires.

Regards,

You can create as you said two different .bas templates, and the you will obtain two .dat files

You can for example assign a condition or material whith a question (could be a hidden question) that classify the element as 'solid' or 'fluid' and a template could write only the 'solid' elements, and another template the 'fluid' elements.
Separate the nodes in two files marking the elements could be a little more difficult, specially if some nodes are shared by both kind of elements.

And off course for advanced thinks it is always possible to invoke from the .bas template a Tcl procedure with *tcl(your_procedure) that could do exactly what you want, with a powerful scripting language (e.g. you can open the files you want and write inside what you want)