Viewing the geometry in OpenFOAM tutorial

ansys_matt · March 9, 2021, 20:56

I wanted to go through the tutorial on CircuitBoardCooling that came with OF, so I opened Paraview and with that opened the Baffle3D.stl file. In Paraview I only can see a plane (See Video I took of what I am talking about) and no 3D anything.

How do I enable rotation to see what this thing looks like??
Does OpenFOAM have a way to convert from STL to its native mesh?

lumpor · March 12, 2021, 14:28

I turned the quality of the video to max, and it confirmed my suspicion that your camera mode is set to 2D. If you look at the small buttons under the tab that says "layout" there's a button that says 2D. Just click on it to switch to 3D.

As for your other question, I don't know, sorry.

March 9, 2021, 20:56	Viewing the geometry in OpenFOAM tutorial	#1
ansys_matt Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 60 Rep Power: 13	I wanted to go through the tutorial on CircuitBoardCooling that came with OF, so I opened Paraview and with that opened the Baffle3D.stl file. In Paraview I only can see a plane (See Video I took of what I am talking about) and no 3D anything. How do I enable rotation to see what this thing looks like?? Does OpenFOAM have a way to convert from STL to its native mesh?

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March 12, 2021, 14:28		#2
lumpor Member Fabian Friberg Join Date: Dec 2020 Posts: 31 Rep Power: 5	I turned the quality of the video to max, and it confirmed my suspicion that your camera mode is set to 2D. If you look at the small buttons under the tab that says "layout" there's a button that says 2D. Just click on it to switch to 3D. As for your other question, I don't know, sorry.