<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #000000"><div><span class="st"><em>I would like to partition a mesh into z-tubes.</em><br></span></div><div><span class="st"><em>Each z-tubes contains Zmin and Zmax.<br></em></span></div><div><span class="st"><em>How do I do this using metis?<br></em></span></div><div><span class="st"><em>Hope my question is clear.<br></em></span></div><div><span class="st"><em>Stephen<br></em></span></div><div><span class="st"><em>p.s.<br></em></span></div><div><span class="st"><em>Another way to say this is I want to partition the mesh only in the x,y plane.<br></em></span></div></div></body></html>