Introduction
This document is the user guide of the MED SALOME module. The MED module consists in:
- A library of functions for data processing to manipulate meshes and fields that conform to the MED data model. This library can be used in C++ programs as in python script for data processing on meshes and fields.
- A graphical interface for standard use cases that exhibits some useful functions of the library for a graphical manipulation of data in standard use cases.
- A set of tools for file manipulation that can be used to process MED data files
A library of functions for data processing
The figure below represents the layer structure of the packages of the library:
The fondamentals consists in three atomic libraries:
- MEDCoupling that describes DataStructures used for cross process exchange of meshes and fields.
- MEDLoader that provides I/O functions to the MED file format
- Interpolation tools (INTERP_KERNEL + REMAPPER) that provides mathematical structures and algorithms for interpolation and localization.
You should be warned that the MEDMEM library still exists in the MED module but is considered as deprecated:
- MEDMEM library covers the MEDMEM core library, i.e. the implementation of meshes, supports and fields and the associated drivers (for MED-file, VTK, GIBI).
A graphical interface for standard use cases
The MED module in SALOME comes with a graphical interface that helps you to deal with most standard use case of fields manipulation. The user guide can be found here:
You could also be interested to read the software specifications and requirements for this graphical module, and even the technical considerations for development:
- Software specifications and requirements of the MED Graphical Interface
- Developer guide of the MED Graphical Interface
A set of tools for file manipulation
- Chapter MEDMEM tools describes various tools based on MEDMEM that can be helpful for handling MED files (conversion tools and splitting tools).
Installation
The install procedure of the MED SALOME module can handle a variety of configurations to suit the needs of its user. Instructions for configuring and installing the module an be found in Configuring and Installing MEDMEM from sources.