savetetgenele.m

function savetetgenele(elem, fname)
%
% savetetgenele(elem,fname)
%
% save a mesh tetrahedral element list to tetgen .ele format
%
% author: Qianqian Fang, <q.fang at neu.edu>
%
% input:
%      elem: tetrahedral element list, dimension (ne,4)
%            columns beyound the 4rd column are treated as
%            markers and attributes associated with the element
%      fname: output file name
%
% -- this function is part of iso2mesh toolbox (http://iso2mesh.sf.net)
%

hasprop = 0;
attrstr = '';
markers = '';

fid = fopen(fname, 'wt');
if (fid == 0)
    error(['can not write to file ' fname]);
end
if (size(elem, 2) >= 6)
    hasprop = size(elem, 2) - 5;
    attrstr = repmat('%e ', 1, hasprop);
end
if (size(elem, 2) >= 5)
    markers = '%d';
end
elem(:, 1:4) = elem(:, 1:4) - 1;
fprintf(fid, '%d %d %d\n', size(elem, 1), 4, hasprop + (size(elem, 2) >= 5));
fprintf(fid, ['%d %d %d %d %d ' attrstr markers '\n'], [(1:size(elem, 1))' - 1 elem]');
fclose(fid);