From 457c2ad96deaaa65b6c2fdf0d3c7d8f5ba5fc840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Joachim=20Sch=C3=B6berl?= <joachim.schoeberl@tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:32:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mesh constructor gets dim argument

---
 libsrc/meshing/python_mesh.cpp | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libsrc/meshing/python_mesh.cpp b/libsrc/meshing/python_mesh.cpp
index 3502c38a..2fa9c14e 100644
--- a/libsrc/meshing/python_mesh.cpp
+++ b/libsrc/meshing/python_mesh.cpp
@@ -262,7 +262,22 @@ DLL_HEADER void ExportNetgenMeshing()
   
   
   bp::class_<Mesh,shared_ptr<Mesh>,boost::noncopyable>("Mesh", bp::no_init)
-    .def(bp::init<>("create empty mesh"))
+    // .def(bp::init<>("create empty mesh"))
+
+    .def("__init__", bp::make_constructor 
+         (FunctionPointer ([](int dim)
+                           {
+                             auto mesh = make_shared<Mesh>();
+                             mesh->SetDimension(dim);
+                             return mesh;
+                           }),
+          bp::default_call_policies(),     // need it to use named arguments
+          (
+           bp::arg("dim")=3
+           )
+          ))
+
+    
     .def("__str__", &ToString<Mesh>)
     .def("Load",  FunctionPointer 
 	 ([](Mesh & self, const string & filename)