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Hi,

I would like to delete the cells which reside inside of a geometry from my initial mesh. My cut-off geometry is an axis aligned box so the exact same thing can be achieved with setSet (delete boxToCell) but it would be nice to get this sorted out since insideCells supports a wide range of surface types.

blockMesh - brick domain, nothing special
initial obj file - box with pivot (0 0 0), side length 1
surfaceTransformPoints - scaling and positioning the geometry I want to delete from the mesh
insideCells - separating cells

the error message I get:

Code:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 

Cannot find file "" in directory "polyMesh/sets" in times 0 down to constant



    From function Time::findInstance(const fileName&, const word&, const IOobject::readOption, const word&)

    in file db/Time/findInstance.C at line 140.



FOAM exiting

I checked my geometry and mesh in paraview, and everything seems to be fine.

Anyone with some experience on the issue? Thanks

I get the the same error. could you find out what the problem is?

Quote:

Originally Posted by alirezaj (Post 389705)

I get the the same error. could you find out what the problem is?

Hi All,

I need help with this problem. When I run

Code:

refineMesh -dict

I got

Code:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 

Cannot find file "" in directory "polyMesh/sets" in times 0 down to constant



    From function Time::findInstance(const fileName&, const word&, const IOobject::readOption, const word&)

    in file db/Time/findInstance.C at line 140.



FOAM exiting

What seems to be the problem?

Thanks!

Best,