|
[Sponsors] |
[surface handling] How to make boundary patches in STL file |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes |
August 29, 2008, 02:48 |
How to make boundary patches in STL file
|
#1 |
Member
Ning Yang
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: University Park, PA, USA
Posts: 84
Rep Power: 17 |
Hello:
First, thank openfoam team for the wondful tool snappyhexmesh. I am working on meshing a quite geometry now. I made the geometry from solidworks. Then converted the solidworks file to STL. The problem with solidworks is it exported the geometry as a whole surface. So I couldn't make patches in the stl file. As a workaround, I imported the stl file in Rhino and saved every surface (patch) as a stl file in ASCII format. Then I put all the stil files together (integrated stl file). When I ran snappyhexmesh, I got something like: =============================================== Shell **** does not support testing for inside Probably it is not closed ================================================ I went back to open the integrated stl file in several different softwares ( blender, rhino and solidworks) and it looked that the stl file is closed. Does anybody here has a similar problem? Is there any other way to makes patches for STL files in general? Thank you so much. |
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
[Other] Tabulated thermophysicalProperties library | chriss85 | OpenFOAM Community Contributions | 62 | October 2, 2022 03:50 |
[swak4Foam] Installation Problem with OF 6 version | Aurel | OpenFOAM Community Contributions | 14 | November 18, 2020 16:18 |
what is swap4foam ?? | AB08 | OpenFOAM | 28 | February 2, 2016 01:22 |
SparceImage v1.7.x Issue on MAC OS X | rcarmi | OpenFOAM Installation | 4 | August 14, 2014 06:42 |
friction forces icoFoam | ofslcm | OpenFOAM | 3 | April 7, 2012 10:57 |