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Description:
I generated a tetgen-mesh (beam.1.face, beam.1.node, beam.1.ele) by
tetgen -qfa0.005 beam.poly
(tetgen version 1.4.1) where beam.poly is the following file:

# Part 1 - node list
# node count, 3 dim, no attribute, no boundary marker
8 3 0 0
# Node index, node coordinates
1 0.0 0.0 0.0
2 2.0 0.0 0.0
3 2.0 1.0 0.0
4 0.0 1.0 0.0
5 0.0 0.0 1.0
6 2.0 0.0 1.0
7 2.0 1.0 1.0
8 0.0 1.0 1.0

# Part 2 - facet list
# facet count, boundary marker
6 1
# facets
1 0 1 # 1 polygon, no hole, boundary marker
4 1 2 3 4 # front
1 0 1
4 5 6 7 8 # back
1 0 2
4 1 2 6 5 # bottom

If I try
tetgenToFoam beam.1
in a testcase-file I get the following Error-message:

Trying to specify a boundary face 3(83 169 47) on the face on cell 0 which is either an internal face or already belongs to some other patch. This is face 0 of patch 0 named patch0.#0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam:http://www.cfd-online.com/OpenFOAM_D...part/proud.gifstream&) in "/home/kuhn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#1 Foam::error::abort() in "/home/kuhn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#2 Foam::polyMesh::polyMesh(Foam::IOobject const&, Foam::Field<foam::vector<double> > const&, Foam::List<foam::cellshape> const&, Foam::List<foam::list<foam::face> > const&, Foam::List<foam::word> const&, Foam::List<foam::word> const&, Foam::word const&, Foam::word const&, Foam::List<foam::word> const&, bool) in "/home/kuhn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/lib/linuxGccDPOpt/libOpenFOAM.so"
#3 main in "/home/kuhn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/tetgenToFoam"
#4 __libc_start_main in "/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6"
#5 __gxx_personality_v0 in "/home/kuhn/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/tetgenToFoam"

From function polyMesh::polyMesh
(
const IOobject& io,
const pointField& points,
const cellShapeList& cellsAsShapes,
const faceListList& boundaryFaces,
const wordList& boundaryPatchTypes,
const wordList& boundaryPatchNames,
const word& defaultBoundaryPatchType
)
in file meshes/polyMesh/polyMeshFromShapeMesh.C at line 483.

FOAM aborting

I had the feeling, that tetgen write the internal faces in the .face file with one boundary marker (different to the boundary markers of the boundary faces) and tetgenToFoam try to put these internal faces in an extra boundary-patch.
So I removed the boundary markers of the internal faces in the .face file, and tried tetgenToFoam again, but then I get the same error.

Application: tetgenToFoam

Source: ...OpenFOAM-1.5/applications/utilities/mesh/conversion/tetgenToFoam

Platform: Linux, Version 2.6.18, i686 GNU/Linux

Version: OpenFOAM 1.5

Notes:
Before I generated a tetgen-mesh with the -f option I tried it without this option (tetgen -qa0.005 beam.poly) and this seems to work. CheckMesh said the mesh is ok and I had also different boundary patches in the boundary-file.
But with this mesh I get no simulation working (the solution always diverged).
Also in the sourcecode of tetgenToFoam is a note, that you have to use the -f option.
Is this a bug?