@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Explore a mesh
99.. include :: ../../../links_and_refs.rst
1010.. |PropertyField | replace :: :class: `PropertyField <ansys.dpf.core.property_field.PropertyField> `
1111.. |element_types | replace :: :class: `list of available element types in a DPF mesh<ansys.dpf.core.elements.element_types> `
12+ .. |StringField | replace :: :class: `StringField <ansys.dpf.core.string_field.StringField> `
1213
1314This tutorial explains how to access a mesh data and metadata so it can be manipulated.
1415
@@ -111,14 +112,14 @@ The mesh data includes :
111112
112113- Unit;
113114- Nodes, elements and faces;
114- - Named selections.
115+ - Named selections: .
115116
116- Check all the types of data you can get from a mesh at |MeshedRegion |.
117-
118- When instantiating nodes, elements, faces and named selections you get the correspondent DPF objects:
117+ When instantiating nodes, elements, faces and named selections you get the corresponding DPF objects:
119118|Nodes |, |Elements |, |Faces | and |Scoping |.
120119
121- Here, we get the mesh nodes.
120+ For more information of other types of data you can get from a mesh, see the API reference of the |MeshedRegion | class.
121+
122+ In this tutorial, we explore the data about the mesh nodes.
122123
123124.. tab-set ::
124125
@@ -179,7 +180,9 @@ Explore the mesh metadata
179180
180181You can access the mesh metadata by manipulating the |MeshedRegion | object properties.
181182
182- You can check which ones are available.
183+ The mesh metadata information describes the mesh composition.
184+
185+ You can access which metadata information is available for a given result file.
183186
184187.. tab-set ::
185188
@@ -228,7 +231,9 @@ You can also chose which property you want to extract.
228231When extracting the properties you get a |PropertyField | with that information. Their data is mapped to
229232the entity they are defined at.
230233
231- The element type is given as a number. Check the |element_types | to find the
234+ Here, we extract the element types for the mesh elements.
235+
236+ The element type is given as a number. See the |element_types | to find the
232237corresponding element name.
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234239.. tab-set ::
@@ -272,4 +277,7 @@ corresponding element name.
272277 el_types_4 = meshed_region_4.property_field(property_name="eltype")
273278
274279 # Print the element types by element
275- print(el_types_4)
280+ print(el_types_4)
281+
282+ For more information about how to explore a mesh metadata before extracting it from a result file, see the
283+ :ref: `<ref_tutorials_explore_mesh_metadata >`tutorial.
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