# Getting salome mesh to FEniCSx python

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**Category:** mesh\
**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/getting-salome-mesh-to-fenicsx-python/19477 "2026-02-10T11:53:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dokken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fenicsproject.discourse.group/dokken/32/1560_2.png) [@dokken](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/dokken)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/getting-salome-mesh-to-fenicsx-python/19477/21 "2026-02-12T15:11:51Z")

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> [@otaolafr](#):
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> No i did not, but in other files (that i did not make myself) i got as example without extracting the blocks it did not showed.

This depends on your file format.  
XDMF supports multiblock data, which if rendered all together, can look strange in Paraview.

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**Author:** ![otaolafr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fenicsproject.discourse.group/otaolafr/32/9356_2.png) [@otaolafr](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/otaolafr)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/getting-salome-mesh-to-fenicsx-python/19477/22 "2026-03-16T15:18:26Z")

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Hello dokken,  
me again 😄 thanks the med reader it is working great, one small question, that looking at your code i could not get to find a way, is there any way to get the original names for each face tag?  
like ‘inlet’ etc. the tags that you are reading on the med file represents a group, and each group has its own name before exporting it, i am not sure if it is possible to recover this neames.  
thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![dokken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fenicsproject.discourse.group/dokken/32/1560_2.png) [@dokken](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/dokken)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/getting-salome-mesh-to-fenicsx-python/19477/23 "2026-03-16T15:58:48Z")

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I didn’t initially add this functionality, but it should be possible to extend the reader to support this.  
Please make an issue at:

> **[GitHub - scientificcomputing/io4dolfinx: Input/Output for dolfinx](https://github.com/scientificcomputing/io4dolfinx)**
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> Input/Output for dolfinx

with an appropriate mesh that we could test on, as this is the “new package” where I aim to do all io formats in the future:

> <https://github.com/scientificcomputing/io4dolfinx/issues/4>
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> \`.med\` backend should rely on H5PY and implementation can be based on:
> https://g…ist.github.com/jorgensd/459a4ae463abe76bd4867f42a0c16c04

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**Author:** ![otaolafr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fenicsproject.discourse.group/otaolafr/32/9356_2.png) [@otaolafr](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/otaolafr)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 7:28am UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/getting-salome-mesh-to-fenicsx-python/19477/24 "2026-03-17T07:28:10Z")

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i created an issue; [read names of faces tags from `.med` file · Issue #30 · scientificcomputing/io4dolfinx · GitHub](https://github.com/scientificcomputing/io4dolfinx/issues/30#issue-4086723143)  
regards

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