It would be wonderful if a tool for FoamToTecplot is available

hjasak · September 22, 2005, 10:02

You are missing the fvCFD.H header - in foam-1.2 it lives in:

cfdTools/general/lnInclude

which is different from previous versions. Change Make/options file and all will be welll.

Enjoy,

Hrv

francois · September 22, 2005, 10:23

Tanks Hrvoje it works !

I'm new to OpenFOAM, I build it on tru64 this morning ... so I'm not already ok with it.

panara · February 21, 2006, 14:12

Dear all,

I am using foamToTecplot in a multizone configuration. I modified foamToTecplot in order to process only one subzone and it works in Foam 1.1

When I am using the 1.2 version it doesn't work.

It seems it cannot find the region fields in the time directories.

I modified the following line as follows:

IOobjectList objects(mesh,runTime.timeName(),"region1")

in

IOobjectList objects(mesh,runTime.timeName()/"region1/")

and works just for the first 200 time steps then for the other 100 time steps it doesn't work anymore...!!

The timesteps directory have all the same structure:

time/region1/p T U rho time

Any suggestions?

mattijs · February 23, 2006, 05:10

There should be no limit on the number of time directories.

Did you try printing the names of your ioobjects?

Pout<< objects.names() << endl;

mattijs · February 23, 2006, 06:02

Check your code very carefully.
Check your filenames very carefully. No spaces in them?
Run valgrind.
Put some printing in Unix.C::readDir

panara · February 23, 2006, 12:49

Here you are..

this is the first error that valgrind has found:

==12589==
==12589== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==12589== at 0x120564C1: Foam::fileName::ext() const (fileName.C:169)
==12589== by 0x120401A2: Foam::readDir(Foam::fileName const&, Foam::fileName::Type, bool) (Unix.C:499)
==12589== by 0x12089409: Foam::Time::findTimes(Foam::fileName const&) (findTimes.C:52)
==12589== by 0x12083A16: Foam::Time::Time(Foam::word const&, Foam::fileName const&, Foam::fileName const&, Foam::word const&, Foam::word const&) (Time.C:159)
==12589== by 0x420730: main (createTime.H:8)
==12589==
==12589== ---- Attach to debugger ? --- [Return/N/n/Y/y/C/c] ---- y
starting debugger

...
...

and this a list of the source where the error should be..

0x00000000120564c1 in Foam::fileName::ext (this=0x349fb1b0)
at primitives/strings/fileName/fileName.C:169
169 if (i <= 0 || operator[](i) == '/')
(gdb) stack
Undefined command: "stack". Try "help".
(gdb) l
164 // Return file name extension
165 word fileName::ext() const
166 {
167 size_type i = find_last_of("./");
168
169 if (i <= 0 || operator[](i) == '/')
170 {
171 return word::null;
172 }
173 else

Could it be due to the bug in Debian binutils (see tread 'assembler messages when compiling on AMD64') ?

Thanks for your feed back,

Daniele

mattijs · February 23, 2006, 14:40

I cannot replicate this. I created a case with >300 times and U,p in each of them and ran foamToVTK (which works similar to your Dx converter I guess)

Can you repeat it with e.g. foamToVTK (with -mesh option to read region1)? If so send small testcase and I'll have a look at it.

hjasak · February 23, 2006, 15:04

Hi Daniele,

Did you have a trailing slash "/" on the root or case name by any chance? That would do it...

Hrv

frank · April 1, 2006, 04:41

I am tying to use foamToTecplot for twoPhaseEulerFOAM's data conversion from FOAM-1.3 to tecplot 9.0, but it doesn't work!
help me. please!

Exec : foamToTecplot . bed
Date : Apr 01 2006
Time : 16:32:05
Host : qiangl
PID : 11108
Root : /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/mingxia-1.3/run/twoPhaseEulerFoam
Case : bed
Nprocs : 1
Create time

Create mesh for time = 10

Creating timestep 0
Creating timestep 0.1
Foam::error::printStack(Foam:

stream&)
Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int)
/lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046]
[0xffffe420]
/home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b]
_Unwind_Backtrace
backtrace
Foam::error::printStack(Foam:

stream&)
Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int)
Segmentation fault

Best regards
Q. Li

hartinger · April 1, 2006, 09:06

Hi

the number of tecplot variables was limited to twenty. I made it dynamic and tested it on the bed-case with OpenFOAM-1.3.
The code is attached

foamToTecplot.tgz

Markus

frank · April 2, 2006, 08:45

I have tested yours code and it works perfectly fine!
Thank Markus Hartinger's help.

regards
Q. Li

anne · June 6, 2006, 07:14

Hello,

I am also a Tecplot User and would like to have access to foamToTecplot.
Is it possible to get it ?

Thanks very much to help,

Anne

anja · June 6, 2006, 07:22

Hi Anne,

you can find the foamToTecplot utility within this thread. Just go to Markus Hartingers post from May 13, 2005 and download it. But also see:
Hrvoje Jasak on Thursday, September 22, 2005.

Anja

hartinger · June 6, 2006, 07:24

download the foamToTecplot.tgz thing above and save it as such.
then
> tar xvfz foamToTecplot.tgz
> cd foamToTecplot
> wmake

markus

anne · June 6, 2006, 09:21

Thanks you very much,

I have tested it on a file and it works,

Thanks again,

Anne

anja · August 15, 2006, 05:15

Hi all,

can someone please help me with the FoamToTecplot tool?
I would like to get the magnitude of the velocity with it, and not only the single components.

Thanks a lot
Anja

hartinger · August 15, 2006, 05:33

either you create a new variable in foam and write it out
or you calculate the magnitude directly in tecplot
{magU}=sqrt(sqr({U_X}) + sqr({U_Y}) + sqr({U_Z}))

markus

anja · August 15, 2006, 05:55

I know this is not the place to ask that, but where do I have to type that in tecplot?

sorry

anja · August 15, 2006, 06:12

Sorry again for that question, I already got it.

Anja

lr103476 · September 14, 2006, 06:23

I think that foamToTecplot could not (yet) handle polyhedrals, I mean like the cells obtained using the utility polyDualMesh. Is that right?

Frank

September 22, 2005, 10:02	You are missing the fvCFD.H he	#21
hjasak Senior Member Hrvoje Jasak Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: London, England Posts: 1,907 Rep Power: 34	You are missing the fvCFD.H header - in foam-1.2 it lives in: cfdTools/general/lnInclude which is different from previous versions. Change Make/options file and all will be welll. Enjoy, Hrv __________________ Hrvoje Jasak Providing commercial FOAM/OpenFOAM and CFD Consulting: http://wikki.co.uk

September 22, 2005, 10:23	Tanks Hrvoje it works ! I'	#22
francois Senior Member Francois Beaubert Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lille, France Posts: 147 Rep Power: 18	Tanks Hrvoje it works ! I'm new to OpenFOAM, I build it on tru64 this morning ... so I'm not already ok with it.

February 21, 2006, 14:12	Dear all, I am using foamTo	#23
panara Senior Member Daniele Panara Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 101 Rep Power: 18	Dear all, I am using foamToTecplot in a multizone configuration. I modified foamToTecplot in order to process only one subzone and it works in Foam 1.1 When I am using the 1.2 version it doesn't work. It seems it cannot find the region fields in the time directories. I modified the following line as follows: IOobjectList objects(mesh,runTime.timeName(),"region1") in IOobjectList objects(mesh,runTime.timeName()/"region1/") and works just for the first 200 time steps then for the other 100 time steps it doesn't work anymore...!! The timesteps directory have all the same structure: time/region1/p T U rho time Any suggestions?

February 23, 2006, 05:10	There should be no limit on th	#24
mattijs Senior Member Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,419 Rep Power: 27	There should be no limit on the number of time directories. Did you try printing the names of your ioobjects? Pout<< objects.names() << endl;

February 23, 2006, 06:02	Check your code very carefully	#25
mattijs Senior Member Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,419 Rep Power: 27	Check your code very carefully. Check your filenames very carefully. No spaces in them? Run valgrind. Put some printing in Unix.C::readDir

February 23, 2006, 12:49	Here you are.. this is the	#26
panara Senior Member Daniele Panara Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 101 Rep Power: 18	Here you are.. this is the first error that valgrind has found: ==12589== ==12589== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==12589== at 0x120564C1: Foam::fileName::ext() const (fileName.C:169) ==12589== by 0x120401A2: Foam::readDir(Foam::fileName const&, Foam::fileName::Type, bool) (Unix.C:499) ==12589== by 0x12089409: Foam::Time::findTimes(Foam::fileName const&) (findTimes.C:52) ==12589== by 0x12083A16: Foam::Time::Time(Foam::word const&, Foam::fileName const&, Foam::fileName const&, Foam::word const&, Foam::word const&) (Time.C:159) ==12589== by 0x420730: main (createTime.H:8) ==12589== ==12589== ---- Attach to debugger ? --- [Return/N/n/Y/y/C/c] ---- y starting debugger ... ... and this a list of the source where the error should be.. 0x00000000120564c1 in Foam::fileName::ext (this=0x349fb1b0) at primitives/strings/fileName/fileName.C:169 169 if (i <= 0 \|\| operator[](i) == '/') (gdb) stack Undefined command: "stack". Try "help". (gdb) l 164 // Return file name extension 165 word fileName::ext() const 166 { 167 size_type i = find_last_of("./"); 168 169 if (i <= 0 \|\| operator[](i) == '/') 170 { 171 return word::null; 172 } 173 else Could it be due to the bug in Debian binutils (see tread 'assembler messages when compiling on AMD64') ? Thanks for your feed back, Daniele

February 23, 2006, 14:40	I cannot replicate this. I cre	#27
mattijs Senior Member Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,419 Rep Power: 27	I cannot replicate this. I created a case with >300 times and U,p in each of them and ran foamToVTK (which works similar to your Dx converter I guess) Can you repeat it with e.g. foamToVTK (with -mesh option to read region1)? If so send small testcase and I'll have a look at it.

February 23, 2006, 15:04	Hi Daniele, Did you have a	#28
hjasak Senior Member Hrvoje Jasak Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: London, England Posts: 1,907 Rep Power: 34	Hi Daniele, Did you have a trailing slash "/" on the root or case name by any chance? That would do it... Hrv __________________ Hrvoje Jasak Providing commercial FOAM/OpenFOAM and CFD Consulting: http://wikki.co.uk

April 1, 2006, 04:41	I am tying to use foamToTecplo	#29
frank New Member Qiang Li Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Shenyang, LiaoNing, P. R. China Posts: 14 Rep Power: 18	I am tying to use foamToTecplot for twoPhaseEulerFOAM's data conversion from FOAM-1.3 to tecplot 9.0, but it doesn't work! help me. please! Exec : foamToTecplot . bed Date : Apr 01 2006 Time : 16:32:05 Host : qiangl PID : 11108 Root : /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/mingxia-1.3/run/twoPhaseEulerFoam Case : bed Nprocs : 1 Create time Create mesh for time = 10 Creating timestep 0 Creating timestep 0.1 Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40b9d046] [0xffffe420] /home/mingxia/OpenFOAM/linux/gcc-4.1.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 [0x40b8bc0b] _Unwind_Backtrace backtrace Foam::error::printStack(Foam:stream&) Foam::sigSegv::sigSegvHandler(int) Segmentation fault Best regards Q. Li

April 1, 2006, 09:06	Hi the number of tecplot va	#30
hartinger Senior Member Markus Hartinger Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 102 Rep Power: 18	Hi the number of tecplot variables was limited to twenty. I made it dynamic and tested it on the bed-case with OpenFOAM-1.3. The code is attached foamToTecplot.tgz Markus

April 2, 2006, 08:45	I have tested yours code and i	#31
frank New Member Qiang Li Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Shenyang, LiaoNing, P. R. China Posts: 14 Rep Power: 18	I have tested yours code and it works perfectly fine! Thank Markus Hartinger's help. regards Q. Li

June 6, 2006, 07:14	Hello, I am also a Tecplot	#32
anne Member anne dejoan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: madrid, spain Posts: 66 Rep Power: 18	Hello, I am also a Tecplot User and would like to have access to foamToTecplot. Is it possible to get it ? Thanks very much to help, Anne

June 6, 2006, 07:22	Hi Anne, you can find the f	#33
anja Member Anja Stretz Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 18	Hi Anne, you can find the foamToTecplot utility within this thread. Just go to Markus Hartingers post from May 13, 2005 and download it. But also see: Hrvoje Jasak on Thursday, September 22, 2005. Anja

June 6, 2006, 07:24	download the foamToTecplot.tgz	#34
hartinger Senior Member Markus Hartinger Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 102 Rep Power: 18	download the foamToTecplot.tgz thing above and save it as such. then > tar xvfz foamToTecplot.tgz > cd foamToTecplot > wmake markus

June 6, 2006, 09:21	Thanks you very much, I hav	#35
anne Member anne dejoan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: madrid, spain Posts: 66 Rep Power: 18	Thanks you very much, I have tested it on a file and it works, Thanks again, Anne

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August 15, 2006, 05:15	Hi all, can someone please	#36
anja Member Anja Stretz Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 18	Hi all, can someone please help me with the FoamToTecplot tool? I would like to get the magnitude of the velocity with it, and not only the single components. Thanks a lot Anja

August 15, 2006, 05:33	either you create a new variab	#37
hartinger Senior Member Markus Hartinger Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 102 Rep Power: 18	either you create a new variable in foam and write it out or you calculate the magnitude directly in tecplot {magU}=sqrt(sqr({U_X}) + sqr({U_Y}) + sqr({U_Z})) markus

August 15, 2006, 05:55	I know this is not the place t	#38
anja Member Anja Stretz Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 18	I know this is not the place to ask that, but where do I have to type that in tecplot? sorry

August 15, 2006, 06:12	Sorry again for that question,	#39
anja Member Anja Stretz Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 18	Sorry again for that question, I already got it. Anja

September 14, 2006, 06:23	I think that foamToTecplot cou	#40
lr103476 Senior Member Frank Bos Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 340 Rep Power: 19	I think that foamToTecplot could not (yet) handle polyhedrals, I mean like the cells obtained using the utility polyDualMesh. Is that right? Frank __________________ Frank Bos