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Hello everyone
at this time, I export the informations from GiD via text file: geometry, mesh, an easy problem-tipe by which I add informations such as materials, ports, analysis parameters; but I would like to export also the normals to the mesh elements: how I can do this without .bas file and TCL commands?
Thanks.

Usually all problemtypes define the procedure to write the format that it exactly require. Do it is easy.
The .bas template/s or Tcl procedure is invoked when you press Calculate, or use Files->Export->Calculation file.

You can also compute in your code the element normal as the normal of the plane defined by three element nodes.

If do you have a mesh of triangles can export it as STL with
Files->Export->Using template .bas->STL
this format is writing also the face normal (calculated simply from the 3 nodes location)