extrudeMesh from STL Surface
EDIT: Solved below.
Hi everyone,
I'm having a problem when running extrudeMesh from an STL surface. I'm doing this because I'm having problems with running the tandem snappyHexMesh+extrudeMesh, but that is another whole story (that I may post about in the future). This is a test surface I wrote quickly in order to test:
./constant/triSurface/mesh.stl
Code:
solid mesh
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 1.0 1.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 1.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex -1.0 1.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex -1.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
endsolid mesh
This is my extrudeMeshDict file:
./system/extrudeMeshDict
Code:
/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: 1.6 |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.com |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
object extrudeProperties;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
constructFrom surface;
surface "./constant/triSurface/mesh.stl";
flipNormals false;
extrudeModel linearNormal;
nLayers 1;
expansionRatio 1.0;
linearNormalCoeffs
{
thickness 5.0;
}
mergeFaces false;
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
After running extrudeMesh I get a mesh with no points, no faces and no cells. The output shows:
Code:
[...]
Extruding surface with :
points : 9
faces : 8
normals[0] : (0 0 1)
Mesh bounding box : (-1 -1 -5) (1 1 5)
with span : (2 2 10)
Merge distance : 0.0002
Collapsing edges < 0.0002 ...
Merging edge (3 12) since length 0 << 0.0002
Merging edge (1 10) since length 0 << 0.0002
Merging edge (2 11) since length 0 << 0.0002
Merging edge (5 14) since length 0 << 0.0002
Merging edge (7 16) since length 0 << 0.0002
Cell:1 uses faces:5(0 1 2 17 25) of which too many are marked for removal:
0 1 2
Cell:3 uses faces:5(1 3 4 19 27) of which too many are marked for removal:
1 3 4
[...]
Does anyone know why this is happening, how to avoid this, or how is this supposed to be done?
Thanks in advance.
//************************************************** ******
EDIT: I noticed that the problem was caused because OpenFOAM calculates the normal by applying the right-hand rule to the vertices, and not with the facet normal entry. I should have taken this into account. By sorting the vertices accordingly the mesh is generated OK.
The .stl file should read:
./constant/triSurface/mesh.stl
Code:
solid mesh
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 1.0 1.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 1.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex -1.0 1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex -1.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
facet normal 0.0 0.0 1.0
outer loop
vertex 0.0 0.0 0.0
vertex 0.0 -1.0 0.0
vertex -1.0 0.0 0.0
endloop
endfacet
endsolid mesh
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