Problem with fluentMeshToFoam
 

While converting a Fluent mesh created by ICEM CFD, I got the folling error message


Exec : fluentMeshToFoam fluent -case fluent
Date : Aug 28 2008
Time : 09:18:57
Host : flux4
PID : 4838
Case : ./fluent
nProcs : 1

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

input in flex scanner failed



What is wrong?

Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Is the Fluent file ascii? Comp
 

Is the Fluent file ascii? Compare e.g. with icoFoam/elbow/elbow.msh in the tutorials.

The Fluent file is in ASCII fo
 

The Fluent file is in ASCII format and created by ICEM CFD Version 11.

According to ICEM CFD this Fluent file has the Fluent V6 format. I don't know whether openFoam 1.5 supports Fluent V6 file.

So what is different when you
 

So what is different when you load them in an editor? Is the structure the same? Can you post a small sample file?

Hi N.Wei! This is just a gu
 

Hi N.Wei!

This is just a guess: was the ASCII-file created on a Windoze-machine and moved to Linux/Unix/etc? In that case try dos2unix or a similar utility on it before trying to convert it (see discusions about Windows-Newline is two times ***x-newline elsewhere on the board and if I remember it correctly fluentMeshToFoam cares about that difference)

Bernhard