Support writing mod files

[hanjinliu]

Hi teamtomo members,
is there any plans to support writing a ImodModel into a mod file?
It'll be very nice if we can fully handle models on Python side.

[alisterburt]

Hey @hanjinliu ! Nice to see you here 😀

I don't have immediate plans to add this myself but would gladly accept a PR if someone else were to add support

[hanjinliu]

Hi @alisterburt , hope you're doing well!

I'll send a PR if I could figure out how to do that, as I eagerly wanting this 😄

[alisterburt]

Nice! It should definitely be possible it just might be a little tedious going through the binary specification

Don't worry about the PR being finished before opening if you do open it up, happy to work on it a bit together :)

[MoritzWM]

I'll also gladly help you implementing this

[bbarad]

I am interested in this in order to routinely load my surface morphometrics meshes into imod, but I couldn't find any existing PR or progress on this - did I miss something? If not, I'll start with meshes (because of course thats the use case I need!) and open a PR and maybe we can expand from there before doing the full incorporation. Does that seem like a reasonable route forward?

[alisterburt]

I haven't seen any existing work yet but there's clear interest! If you want to jump on zoom this afternoon and work on it @bbarad id be down

[alisterburt]

Path forwards sounds reasonable

[bbarad]

I appreciate the offer but I gotta spend today on personal stuff before I travel again - maybe we can find a time later in the week once I am back at OHSU though!

[alisterburt]

Makes sense - I'm down but would have to be outside of work hours

[alisterburt]

@bbarad worth noting @jojoelfe pushed #31 which just got merged

[jojoelfe]

Also started to add mesh writing in #32

[shahpnmlab]

Thanks for making the write function possible! Super useful!