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# DMMoabCreateBoxMesh
Creates a mesh on the tensor product (box) of intervals with genCtx specified bounds.
## Synopsis
```
#include "petscdmmoab.h"
PetscErrorCode DMMoabCreateBoxMesh(MPI_Comm comm, PetscInt dim, PetscBool useSimplex, const PetscReal *bounds, PetscInt nele, PetscInt nghost, DM *dm)
```
Collective
## Input Parameters
- ***comm -*** The communicator for the DM object
- ***dim -*** The spatial dimension
- ***useSimplex-*** use a simplex mesh
- ***bounds -*** The bounds of the box specified with [x-left, x-right, y-bottom, y-top, z-bottom, z-top] depending on the spatial dimension
- ***nele -*** The number of discrete elements in each direction
- ***nghost -*** The number of ghosted layers needed in the partitioned mesh
## Output Parameter
- ***dm -*** The `DM` object
## See Also
`DMSetType()`, `DMCreate()`, `DMMoabLoadFromFile()`
## Level
beginner
## Location
src/dm/impls/moab/dmmbutil.cxx
## Examples
src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex35.cxx
src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex36.cxx
src/ts/tutorials/ex35.cxx
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