[Sylv]

Dear Foamer,

I have the mesh of a hilly terrain (very similar to the tutorial of moveDynamicMesh). The mesh is composed by the following boundaries:

• north
• south
• east
• west
• top
• ground

I want to extract from "ground" a sub-patch named "hill". To do this, I am thinking about using createPatch, but I need a faceSet with ONLY patch faces, and this is very problematic. My strategy was to use toposet like this:

• create a cellSet with boxToCell. The box enclosed the faces that will be part of "hill" (easy)
• create a faceSet with cellToFace (easy)

From this faceSet, I have to remove the internal faces. How can I do that?

Or is there a better option?

Cheers,
Marcel

[alexeym]

Hi,

You can use subset action in topoSetDict, it would be something like:

    {
        name hill;
        type faceSet;
        action subset;
        source patchToFace;
        sourceInfo
        {
            name "ground";
        }
    }

Where hill is the name of faceSet you have created with cellToFace.

[himanshu28]

Originally Posted by Sylv

Dear Foamer,

I have the mesh of a hilly terrain (very similar to the tutorial of moveDynamicMesh). The mesh is composed by the following boundaries:

• north
• south
• east
• west
• top
• ground

I want to extract from "ground" a sub-patch named "hill". To do this, I am thinking about using createPatch, but I need a faceSet with ONLY patch faces, and this is very problematic. My strategy was to use toposet like this:

• create a cellSet with boxToCell. The box enclosed the faces that will be part of "hill" (easy)
• create a faceSet with cellToFace (easy)

From this faceSet, I have to remove the internal faces. How can I do that?

Or is there a better option?

Cheers,
Marcel

Hi Marcel & Alexey,

I am also trying to achieve similar thing as Marcel showed in the post, for my problem I have following patches:
1) Top wall 2) Left wall

I want to extract only few faces on Top Wall and left wall and build the faceset
(faces of Interest)
|-------|----------------------|------- |
|
|_
|
| (Faces of Interest)
|
|_
|

I am trying the approach as Alexey told but how should I make sure that the "subset" is the set of my interest I will be thankful to both if you can give some detail about the approach .

Thank you

Regards

[alexeym]

Hi,

Maybe I am missing something but...

1. Select cells near top wall. You know location of the top wall, you know size of the cells there, so it should not be a problem. Create faceSet with cellToFace action. Then subSet these faces with patchToFace.

2. Repeat the same with "Left wall".

3. Then you use createPatch utility (maybe you will need to merge faceSets before creating patch, it is done with add action).

[himanshu28]

Originally Posted by alexeym

Hi,

Maybe I am missing something but...

1. Select cells near top wall. You know location of the top wall, you know size of the cells there, so it should not be a problem. Create faceSet with cellToFace action. Then subSet these faces with patchToFace.

2. Repeat the same with "Left wall".

3. Then you use createPatch utility (maybe you will need to merge faceSets before creating patch, it is done with add action).

Hi alexeym,

Thanks for the Help. Its working out

Regards

[amuzeshi]

Originally Posted by Sylv

Dear Foamer,

I have the mesh of a hilly terrain (very similar to the tutorial of moveDynamicMesh). The mesh is composed by the following boundaries:

• north
• south
• east
• west
• top
• ground

I want to extract from "ground" a sub-patch named "hill". To do this, I am thinking about using createPatch, but I need a faceSet with ONLY patch faces, and this is very problematic. My strategy was to use toposet like this:

• create a cellSet with boxToCell. The box enclosed the faces that will be part of "hill" (easy)
• create a faceSet with cellToFace (easy)

From this faceSet, I have to remove the internal faces. How can I do that?

Or is there a better option?

Cheers,
Marcel

There is only one step:

create a faceSet with boxToFace (easy)