<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #000000"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #000000" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #000000" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;"><div>My team uses metis; I use metis to partition meshes without any knowledge of how the metis works; as a conswquence I accept whatever partitions metis gives and that is the problem. </div><div><br></div><div>What I would like is to partition an x,y,z mesh such that all the partitions are in the x-y plane. To be clear I would like all the partitions to include both zmin and zmax that a tube-like partition of length Zmax-Zmin.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The question is how do I tell metis to do this, by default metis cuts across the z-coorinate.<br></div><div>Hope my question is clear,<br></div><div>Thanks in advance,<br></div><div>Stephen<br></div></div></div></div></body></html>