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April 16, 2014, 16:37 |
Any simple way to view blockMeshDict vertex numbers/indices?
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Andrew Somorjai
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I know that Paraview is used for viewing a mesh once blockMesh creates one from the blockMeshDict file but seeing a grid and understand the relationship between the indices used to connect the vertices are two different things. Is there some easy way to visualize the indices without making crude drawings by hand in GIMP or some other image editor.
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April 16, 2014, 16:48 |
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Bruno Santos
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Quick answer:
edit: There is at least one of two more possibilities, but I can't remember their names... Last edited by wyldckat; April 16, 2014 at 16:49. Reason: see "edit:" |
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April 16, 2014, 17:24 |
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April 17, 2014, 05:39 |
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Roman Thiele
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Hej,
I know that Nicolas also develops a GUI for blockMesh, called hexBlocker http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...a-release.html This is also an active git repository https://github.com/nicolasedh
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April 19, 2014, 11:43 |
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Bruno Santos
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Greetings to all!
@Roman: Many thanks for reminding me of HexBlocker! I've taken the time to revamp the wiki page for blockMesh: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/BlockMesh - if you remember any more helpful features and hints about blockMesh, feel free to add it to that wiki page! Best regards, Bruno |
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July 8, 2014, 10:11 |
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Gerhard Holzinger
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PyFoamDisplayBlockMesh can display everything defined in blockMeshDict even when meshing fails due to some errors.
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...ayBlockMesh.py |
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July 5, 2018, 08:18 |
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Vania
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Dear all,
I am trying to visualize the vertex numbers/indices of a case. Doing paraFoam -block in the case folder I get : bash-4.1$ paraFoam -block Created temporary 'wavemakerTank_teste.blockMesh' fileName::stripInvalid() called for invalid fileName /home/user/Desktop/LinktoOpenFOAM/user-v1606+/run/tutorials/olaFlow/tutorials/wavemakerTank_teste/wavemakerTank_teste.blockMesh For debug level (= 2) > 1 this is considered fatal So there is some problem with paraFoam, I suppose. Following Phicau's suggestion, I moved the folder to /home/user/ and the instruction is now working. |
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