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Old   February 6, 2012, 08:34
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Hello OF-Community,

I am looking for a possibility to display eMesh-Files (e.g. created by surfaceFeatureExtract) in order to check their real content.

Is there any utility or the like?

Thanks in advance.

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Old   February 6, 2012, 10:20
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Hi,
you can import them in paraview.
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Dear val46,

thanks for the quick reply.

I thaught that as well but I didn't work. Firstly I cannot open the eMesh file directly and even if I use the option writeVTK the generated additional file (format .extendedFeatureEdgeMesh) cannot be opened by paraView, isn't it?

I have seen that there is the option "writeObj" which also several obj files for. Amongst others there is a file "..._edgeMesh.obj" which can be opened in paraView and contains all edges. Is the content of "..._edgeMesh.obj" surely comparable with the content of the eMesh file generated in .../constant/triSurface?

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ah, sorry, forgot about the obj files.

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I have seen that there is the option "writeObj" which also several obj files for. Amongst others there is a file "..._edgeMesh.obj" which can be opened in paraView and contains all edges. Is the content of "..._edgeMesh.obj" surely comparable with the content of the eMesh file generated in .../constant/triSurface?
Yes, I think so.
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Okay, thank you.
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Old   February 6, 2012, 18:10
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Greetings to all!

You can use:
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surfaceFeatureConvert constant/triSurface/file.eMesh features.obj
to convert "eMesh" to "obj". You can also use a random extension name to see which extensions are accepted.

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Good morning Bruno,

I have just tested your recommendation which would completely solve my problem. Unfortunable I got the following error
Code:
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.1.x_20120105                        |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 2.1.x_20120105-eb976ba31c36
Exec   : surfaceFeatureConvert constant/triSurface/geo.eMesh geo.obj
Date   : Feb 08 2012
Time   : 09:20:51
Host   : 
PID    : 24579
Case   : 
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

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


--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
Expected a '(' while reading VectorSpace<Form, Cmpt, nCmpt>, found on line 22 an error

file: constant/triSurface/geo.eMesh at line 22.

    From function Istream::readBegin(const char*)
    in file db/IOstreams/IOstreams/Istream.C at line 94.

FOAM exiting
With the same file it was possible to write out the obj files while running the surfaceExtract command. Any idea what could go wrong?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

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Hi Ben,

Open the file "constant/triSurface/geo.eMesh" with a text editor and check if there is anything out of place, as the output indicates!
Or if you can, attach the file "geo.eMesh" on your next post so we can see what might be wrong there!

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Old   March 14, 2017, 02:23
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eMesh file might be written in binary format.

Change the file format from binary to ascii and try surfaceFeatureExtract and surfaceFeatureConvert again.
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