How to make animations out of .hfm files?

aleisia · March 14, 2011, 14:15

Hi guys!
I ran a unsteady calculation and I setup capturing solution animation before I started it, then I got 100GB's of .hfm files.
When I tried to playback right after the calculation was over, somehow fluent crashed before I can export the case and data.
So now I have these many .hfm files, and what do I have to do to make an animation out of them?
Thanks!

aleisia · March 14, 2011, 15:06

I tried to read another case and data just to get in fluent, then I tried to get the solution animation playback by choosing the animation sequences(.cxa files) and tried to make a mpeg out of it, it kept telling me could not find .ppm files, so I tried to convert the hfm file to write them as ppm pictures, still nothing happened, so what can I do right now?

thanks!

March 14, 2011, 14:15	How to make animations out of .hfm files?	#1
aleisia Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 38 Rep Power: 15	Hi guys! I ran a unsteady calculation and I setup capturing solution animation before I started it, then I got 100GB's of .hfm files. When I tried to playback right after the calculation was over, somehow fluent crashed before I can export the case and data. So now I have these many .hfm files, and what do I have to do to make an animation out of them? Thanks!

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March 14, 2011, 15:06		#2
aleisia Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 38 Rep Power: 15	I tried to read another case and data just to get in fluent, then I tried to get the solution animation playback by choosing the animation sequences(.cxa files) and tried to make a mpeg out of it, it kept telling me could not find .ppm files, so I tried to convert the hfm file to write them as ppm pictures, still nothing happened, so what can I do right now? thanks!