savemedit.m

function savemedit(node, face, elem, fname)
%
% savemedit(node,face,elem,fname)
%
% save a surface or tetrahedral mesh to Medit format
%
% author: Qianqian Fang, <q.fang at neu.edu>
% date: 2010/10/30
%
% input:
%      node: input, surface node list, dimension (nn,3 or 4)
%      face: input, surface face element list, dimension (be,3 or 4)
%      elem: input, tetrahedral element list, dimension (ne,4 or 5)
%      fname: output file name
%
% -- this function is part of iso2mesh toolbox (http://iso2mesh.sf.net)
%

fid = fopen(fname, 'wt');
if (fid == -1)
    error('You do not have permission to save mesh files.');
end

fprintf(fid, '# Generated by iso2mesh: http://iso2mesh.sf.net\n');
fprintf(fid, 'MeshVersionFormatted\t1\nDimension\t3\n');

if (~isempty(node))
    if (size(node, 2) <= 3)
        node(1, 4) = 0;
    end
    fprintf(fid, 'Vertices\t%d\n', size(node, 1));
    fprintf(fid, '%e\t%e\t%e\t%.0f\n', node(:, 1:4)');
end

if (~isempty(face))
    if (size(face, 2) <= 3)
        face(1, 4) = 0;
    end
    fprintf(fid, 'Triangles\t%d\n', size(face, 1));
    fprintf(fid, '%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n', face(:, 1:4)');
end

if (~isempty(elem))
    if (size(elem, 2) <= 4)
        elem(1, 5) = 0;
    end
    fprintf(fid, 'Tetrahedra\t%d\n', size(elem, 1));
    fprintf(fid, '%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n', elem(:, 1:5)');
end

fprintf(fid, 'End');

fclose(fid);