[Moux]

Hello,

I am writting today beacause I have an issue when I import a .stl file in openFOAM.

I want to use a specific shape to modify a tank, the problem is, when I run snappyHexMesh, the system creates a .eMesh file thanks to the .stl file. This eMesh file is a conversion of the .stl file in order to import the shape at the good location in my tank.

When I want to see the Tank with paraFoam, the system crashed because some vertices are not longer coplanar. When I check the eMesh file, I can see that there is a small difference between this coordinates and the coordinates in the .stl file for the same vertex.

For istance, if my vertex is (100 1 -25) in the .stl file, this vertex in the eMesh file is (100 0.9999958456 -25). This difference makes paraFoam crashed and I do not know how to fix that problem...

Any idea?


Cheers,

Max

[Ananthakrishnan]

Hi maxime,

I am also a new user of snappyhexmesh but i will any way try to address your problem. Please forgive me if my answer is completely irrelevant to your question

I think snappyhexmesh does not create .eMesh file.. You need to use surfaceFeatureExtract option to create the .eMesh file. This has to be done before starting snappyexmesh option.

Cheers..
Ananth

[Moux]

Hi Ananth,

Thank you for your reply,

I run surfaceFeatureExtract before SnappyHexMesh. I have just fixed the problem, I increased the number of cells to define my beach using OpenScad to make a .stl file.

I had another problem, I posted a thread about it but I fixed it too by increasing the number of cells. It makes snappyHexMesh script a bit much longer to run but it works.

Regards,

Max

[Ananthakrishnan]

oh okie..

Good to hear that.. thanks for the information too.. It is very interesting how STL affects the meshing!!

cheers,
Ananth