HI
I am just starting to learn OpenFoam and have been going through the tuts from the user guide. When I try to view the mesh for the case cavity (2.1.2 of the User Guide) I get a window which looks very different from Figure 7.1. The current window has 3 tabs labelled: General, annotate and camera instead of parameters, display and information. I had problems running paraFoam earlier (ie segmentation fault, line 57 in paraview) so I commented that entire file and finally got it to open. It's just that the windows doesn't look the way it should.

SHuo

[mattijs]

Your paraFoam installation is not correct. Fix it or use

- foamToVTK to convert results to vtk format
- paraview and load in the .vtk files

I tried running it again and it seems that the error is because the file cavity.foam is empty. Any advice?

[joey]

That troubles me too. Have you solve the problem? How? Thanks a lot!
Joey

[gschaider]

Hi Joey!
You're refering to the post from the 267th of March, are you? As far as I understand it the cavity.foam file is supposed to be empty. It only tells the paraview importer "In this directory you'll find OpenFOAM-data"

Hej,

I am just starting to learn OpenFoam and have been going through the tutorials from the user guide. I have some problem with paraFoam..I am trying to run it , but I get a message:
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home/margst/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.3/bin/paraFoam: case directory /home/margst/OpenFOAM/margst-1.3/run/cavity does not
exist, exiting
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I typed:
paraFoam $HOME/OpenFOAM/margst-1.3/run cavity
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Could u help me, please?

Hej,
I solved one problem, but now I have got another one:
/home/margst/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.3/bin/paraFoam: line 57: paraview: command not found

Anyone know what I should do?

/Rita

[hjasak]

Why cannot you find paraview? Did you install it? What happens if you say:

which paraview

Are you sure it is on the system?

Hrv

Hej Hrvoje,

After I typed: which paraview , nothing happens.
Should I install paraview separately? It's seems the paraview is not installed. do u know how to install it?

thank you,
Rita

[ueno]

Hi Margarita,

Have you read README in OpenFOAM-1.3?
It seems that you have not set the environment variables.

Before running paraview, you should type following command (if you're using bash) to set environment variables.
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. $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.3/.OpenFOAM-1.3/bashrc
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Anyway, I recommend you to read the README file before doing that.

Makoto

[dmoroian]

It seems that you did not install the third party software:
gcc, paraview and jdk
Did you follow the steps I wrote for you?
If you did, then you have to find in OpenFOAM/linuxAMD64 the following:

home/dragosm> ls OpenFOAM/linuxAMD64/
gcc-4.1.0 j2sdk1.4.2_05 paraview-2.4.2

There you have a directory called paraview-2.4.2 which contains all the binaries for paraview.

Dragos

Thank you all, I finaly installed all part of OpenFOAM.

/Rita