Dear Henrik,
yes, if i use "foamToVTK" and i can see the results using "paraview". I cannot understand why paraFoam does not work.

Hongyi

Hello Jaswinder, thanks a lot for pointing to the right installation files. I have been able to install the dev version and its working fine now. thanks. I will get back to my ggi mixer problem now.

Niel, Thanks to you too for your suggestion.

Reg, Mandar

Dear Hongyi,

i have unfortunately the same problem, after compiling

• ThirdParty
• OpenFoam-1.5-dev from subversion (latest version)
• Qt-4.3.5
• ParaView-3.4.0
• ParaFoam

without errors, i can run different cases but after pressing "Apply" in paraFoam nothing is displayed. Under "Information" it seems that the files are loaded (data arrays are available and number of cells are shown (cavity case from icoFoam: number of cells:400)). Using foamToVTK und starting paraview, the correct geometry is shown.

Runnung:
Ubuntu 9.04
Nvidia drivers 180 and 173 tried (both the same)
Qt-4.3.5
ParaView-3.4.0

On Ubuntu 8.10, the same configurations worked really fine... so where can be the problem?

Regards

Tino

Dear All,

there is not much I can do to help other than posting my setup.

System --------------

lenovo W500 laptop with Suse 11.1 and latest patches.

galerius*178-> uname -a
Linux galerius 2.6.27.21-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-03-31 14:50:44 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

compiler --------------

I am used the system compiler to compile OF.

Qt-libraries --------------

galerius*177-> rpm -qa | egrep libqt4
libqt4-sql-mysql-4.4.3-11.8.1
libqt4-x11-4.4.3-4.8.2
libqt4-sql-4.4.3-4.8.2
libqt4-sql-unixODBC-4.4.3-11.8.1
libqt4-sql-sqlite-4.4.3-4.8.2
libqt4-devel-doc-data-4.4.3-4.8.1
libqt4-qt3support-4.4.3-4.8.2
libqt4-devel-4.4.3-4.8.2
libqt4-devel-doc-4.4.3-4.8.1
libqt4-4.4.3-4.8.2
libqt4-sql-postgresql-4.4.3-11.8.1

Paraview --------------

I unpacked Paraview 3.4.0 into the ThirdParty directory and used the scripts I posted to compile it.
galerius*163-> foamInstallationTest
Executing /home/foam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/bin/foamInstallationTest:

foamInstallationTest --------------

Checking basic setup...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shell: tcsh
Host: galerius
OS: Linux version 2.6.27.21-0.1-default
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking main OpenFOAM env variables...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory Valid Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR /home/foam/OpenFOAM yes yes
$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR /home/foam/OpenFOAM/foam-1.5-dev yes no
$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR /home/foam/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty yes yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking the OpenFOAM env variables set on the PATH...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory Valid Path Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$WM_PROJECT_DIR /home/foam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev yes yes yes

$FOAM_APPBIN ...5-dev/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes yes
$FOAM_USER_APPBIN ...5-dev/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes no
$WM_DIR ...foam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/wmake yes yes yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking the OpenFOAM env variables set on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory Valid Path Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$FOAM_LIBBIN ...M/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/lib/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes yes
$FOAM_USER_LIBBIN ...nFOAM/foam-1.5-dev/lib/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes no
$MPI_ARCH_PATH .../openmpi-1.3/platforms/linuxGccDPOpt yes yes yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Third party software
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Software Version Location
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: gcc version does not match gcc supplied with this release of OpenFOAM
Supplied version: 4.3.1
User version : ../configure
4.3.2
Minimum required: 4.2.0

gcc ...figure
WARNING: Conflicting installations:
OpenFOAM settings : /bin/gcc
current path : /usr/bin/gcc
CRITICAL ERROR

gzip 1.3.12 /bin/gzip
tar 1.20 /bin/tar
icoFoam 1.5-dev ...penFOAM-1.5-dev/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/icoFoam
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking networking...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Action Result Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pinging_galerius Successful yes
Pinging_localHost Successful yes
Test_rsh: Unsuccessful_connection_refused* yes
Test_ssh: Successful yes
(*) Only one of rsh or ssh is required by the OpenFOAM enviroment.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Base configuration ok.

The foam installation contains 1 critical error(s).

Review the output for warning messages and consult
the installation guide for trouble shooting.

done.

paraview
 

Hello all,

I have installed and compiled OF-1.5-dev without an error. Now I wanted to check the icoFoam case but in my Terminal this message is shown:
/home/michel/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5-dev/bin/paraFoam: 103: paraview: not found.

But this is really strange because I compiled paraview, too. Has anybody an idea?

Best Regards

Michél

@ Holzmichel,

check your $OpenFOAM-DIR/etc/apps/paraview3/bash

for these entries:

where you have to fit the Path and Version to ParaView.

yes
 

export ParaView_INST_DIR=$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/ParaView$ParaView_VERSION

Thank you. between ParaView$ParaView was an -