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knoedl1 March 23, 2014 08:41

what does this error mean?
 
Hi everybody!

Does anybody know what the following error message is about?

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Checking geometry...
This is a 2-D mesh
Overall domain bounding box (0 0 0) (0.001 0.001 0.001)
Mesh (non-empty, non-wedge) directions (1 1 0)
Mesh (non-empty) directions (1 1 0)
Mesh (non-empty, non-wedge) dimensions 2
***Number of edges not aligned with or perpendicular to non-empty directions: 2
Writing 4 points on non-aligned edges to set nonAlignedEdges
Boundary openness (0 0 0) Threshold = 1e-06 OK.
Max cell openness = 0 OK.
Max aspect ratio = 2 OK.
Minumum face area = 5e-07. Maximum face area = 1.41421e-06. Face area magnitudes OK.
Min volume = 5e-10. Max volume = 5e-10. Total volume = 5e-10. Cell volumes OK.
Non-orthogonality check OK.
Face pyramids OK.
Max skewness = 0.333333 OK.

Failed 1 mesh checks.

End

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I am trying to make a simple wedge type in OF1.6ext

vasava March 26, 2014 06:21

The One of your patches has wrong order of vertices. You can use 'foamToVTK -pointSet nonAlignedEdges' and then visualize the problem area with paraview.


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