This tool is designed to convert triangular (in 2D) or tetrahedral (in 3D) mesh to quadrilateral or hexahedral one respectively.
At the moment tethex takes a Gmsh's mesh file as input, then converts all simplices (tetrahedra and triangles) into bricks (hexahedra and quadrangles), and writes the resulting mesh in Gmsh's format again. New mesh can be used in many software packages working with bricks only - for example, deal.II - the package which this tool was originally designed for.
Supported formats of input meshes:
Format of output meshes is Gmsh ASCII 2.0 (.msh).