Hi! I am a new user. I have
 

Hi!
I am a new user. I have a complex geometry and I want to know if the only way to describe it is editing the blockMeshDict file.
Thanks a lot
Amalia

There is an option -blockTopol
 

There is an option -blockTopology to blockMesh which will dump out the block points. You can visualize the resulting .obj files with e.g. javaview or run objToVTK and use paraview. The node numbering in either program will be the same as the blockMesh block points. I find this is quite useful for multiblock meshes.

You can also use 3rd party mes
 

You can also use 3rd party meshers and convert the results to foam format using the converters found in:

OpenFOAM-1.1/applications/utilities/mesh/conversion/

There are quite a lot of formats to choose from.

Hi Mattijs! Thanks for your a
 

Hi Mattijs!
Thanks for your answer... where can I find some docu about that? Where can I find blockTopology?
How should I use it?
Thanks
Amalia

Sorry, no docu. It is a comman
 

Sorry, no docu. It is a command-line option and probably not yet in FoamX. Do

blockMesh -

to find out any command-line options.

Hi Mattijs! I have created th
 

Hi Mattijs!
I have created the .obj file with blockMesh -blockTopology, then I have created the VTK file with objtoVTK and I have a problem because I can not visualize the VTK file with paraview. I get the message "Could not find an appropiate reader for this file. Would you like to manually select the reader for this vile"? I have trid with some of the list, but it does not seem ok...
Thanks
Amalia