CFD Online Discussion Forums - [OpenFOAM] Visualizing imported meshes

Ok, so I am still a beginner at OF trying to figure how things work out. I imported 2 meshes with varying success:

1. From HyperMesh in .cas format, then imported via fluentMeshToFoam. Importing was successful, but could not visualize w/ paraFoam, used

Code:

> foamToVtk

> paraview

Opened the 0.vtk file and it worked like a charm!

2. From Star CCM+ 8.04, I imported the 2D mesh from the back step tutorial. ccm26ToFoam worked fine and updated the files in the polyMesh folder (all but blockMesh).

Now I tried to do exactly as I did before:
1. deleted the p, U 0-files.
2. foamToVtk (so that I can use paraview)

but I received the following error(s):

Code:

Build  : 2.2.2-9240f8b967db

Exec   : foamToVTK

Date   : Nov 05 2013

Time   : 09:18:47

Host   : "UbuntuAres"

PID    : 6301

Case   : /home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/openfoam-2.2.2/Third_Party_Downloads/ccm26ToFoam/cavity

nProcs : 1

sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).

fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster

allowSystemOperations : Disallowing user-supplied system call operations



// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

Create time



Create mesh for time = 0



Deleting old VTK files in "/home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/openfoam-2.2.2/Third_Party_Downloads/ccm26ToFoam/cavity/VTK"



Time: 0

    volScalarFields            : cellId cellType



    Internal  : "/home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/openfoam-2.2.2/Third_Party_Downloads/ccm26ToFoam/cavity/VTK/cavity_0.vtk"





--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 

Serious problem: asked to split a face with < 3 vertices



    From function face::split(const face::splitMode, const pointField&, label&, label&, faceList&, faceList&)

    in file meshes/meshShapes/face/face.C at line 143.



FOAM aborting



#0  Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:?

#1  Foam::error::abort() at ??:?

#2  Foam::face::split(Foam::face::splitMode, Foam::Field<Foam::Vector<double> > const&, int&, int&, Foam::List<Foam::face>&, Foam::List<Foam::face>&) const at ??:?

#3  Foam::face::nTrianglesQuads(Foam::Field<Foam::Vector<double> > const&, int&, int&) const at ??:?

#4  

 at ??:?

#5  

 at ??:?

#6  

 at ??:?

#7  __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"

#8  

 at ??:?

Aborted (core dumped)

So, any idea how to fix that? Thanks.