Problem using paraFoam to view cavityGrade mesh file
 

Hi,

I am having difficulty running paraFoam to view the mesh file for the cavityGrade case available in the openFoam tutorial. I get the following error message when I execute the command "paraFoam" within the case directory.
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ERROR: In /home/dm2/henry/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PV3FoamReader/PV3FoamReader/vtkPV3FoamReader.cxx, line 189
vtkPV3FoamReader (0x8add298): could not find valid OpenFOAM mesh


ERROR: In /home/dm2/henry/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6/paraview-3.6.1/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 757
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x8a45e60): Algorithm vtkPV3FoamReader(0x8add298) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x8aeb258)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 82767
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
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Please note that I am using OpenFoam 1.6 for lunix 32 bit platform in Ubuntu 9.04.

If you have a solution, please let me know.

Thanks.

Felik9

Found Solution
 

Hi,

The problem was that I did not run blockMesh first, then paraFoam.

Thanks for viewing my post