[carl_r]

Hi,
I'm trying to learn to use snappyHexMesh, so am trying to complete the flange tutorial. I'm using OpenFOAM v7

I have run into an issue I can't solve.

The steps I undertake are:
1) copy tutorial directory and stl file to my run directory

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/mesh/snappyHexMesh/flange .

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/resources/geometry/flange.stl.gz .flange/constant/triSurface

2) Move to the tutorial directory
3) Run blockMesh
4) Try to run surfaceFeatureExtract, however I get the following error:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
cannot find file "/home/carl/OpenFOAM/carl-7/run/flange/system/surfaceFeatureExtractDict"

In the systems directory there is a surfaceFeaturesDict, but not a surfaceFeatureExtractDict. Has the name changed in the new version, or does anyone know why i'm getting this error?

[jpjamo]

Hi All,

new openFoam user going through lots of tutorials and I have also got stuck on the Flange Tutorial 12.
Everything I have read says that the STL file should be copied into the /constant/trisurface folder, yet this tutorial only works if the flange.stl file is located in the /constant/geometry folder.

There is an Allrun script that comes with the tutorial and it even specifies this constant/geometry folder location.

I have tried doing it "manually" without the Allrun and unless I put the STL in /constant/geometry folder it throws up the same error when I run the surfaceFeatures function or snappyHexMesher.

I am running v9 on Windows and everything else has run/loaded fine to this point.

Many thanks in advance!
James

[jpjamo]

Hello All,

well I found the issue.

See the following commit link:

https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM...6c91da2a915dec

So /constant/geometry is the new standard location for any geometry files but a triSurface sub-folder can still be used. My issue was that I had both the geometry and triSurface folders located in the \constant folder, however geometry was empty which it doesn't like.
As soon as I deleted the empty geometry folder, everything works as per the old tutorial references.

Just for anyone's future reference to avoid a wasted day following up a detail that shouldn't matter

cheers
James