# Gmsh physical tags

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-physical-tags/958>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-physical-tags/958 "2021-04-30T22:57:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrbenson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@mrbenson](https://community.freefem.org/u/mrbenson)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-physical-tags/958/1 "2021-04-30T22:57:02Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to force gmshload and gmshload3 to use physical tags instead of elementary tag when importaing gmsh files ?

Best regards.

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**Author:** ![frederichecht](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/frederichecht/32/15_2.png) [@frederichecht](https://community.freefem.org/u/frederichecht)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/gmsh-physical-tags/958/2 "2021-05-02T07:53:09Z")

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Not but you can add a flag in gsmload3 to do this in the source.