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Improve documentation of DataOutFaces #8918
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Did it segmentation fault in debug mode? If so, could you attach your sample code so we can figure out why there was no assertion failure? |
No, in debug mode it says |
Well, did you call |
That's my point. I can imagine that it is pretty clear for a deal.II developer that one must call
I only want to write the surface mesh in order to visualize the contours of the geometry. What I also found out is that |
Yes, As for the need to call |
I wanted to use
DataOutFaces
recently and want to share some obstacles that I have noticed in this context. The codecompiles, the constructor runs successfully, but gives a segmentation fault in
build_patches()
. I think the documentation could be improved regarding the following aspects:DataOutFaces
refers to the one ofDataOut
, which is not a base class? For example, one can useDataOutBase::VtkFlags
for high-order output inDataOut
, but does this automatically translate toDataOutFaces
?build_patches()
and asserts with some useful information?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: