GUI for OpenFOAM
 

Hi All,
I am eagerly looking for GUI for OpenFOAM? Is there any? And is it available as opensource or paid commerical package?

openFoam had a GUI in previous models called foamx but now descritizer can be assumed as a GUI for openFoam hardly!

What's wrong with Emacs? The most flexible GUI on earth for editing OF-parameter files. Meshing is a bit harder ;)

Seriously: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/GUI might be a start (if you find anything else be so nice and extend it)

what is emacs???
i think that discretizaer is difficult to learn for new foamers!!!

Emacs ist the perfect GUI for almost everything except gaming (if you can't do it in Emacs then it IS gaming): http://tinyurl.com/6ehbn45

I beg to differ: http://www.nongnu.org/nethack-el/

:)

Martin

Martin, that is not a good example as you know: nethack is not a game, it is the only manifestation of the "real world" inside of the matrix.

But I didn't know this specific manifestation. Cool

How big is your emacs pinky?

I use Komodo Edit for editing.

I just create a komodo project in the case folder and then every case file is just a click away.

Works with Windows, Mac and Linux. And its a free download.
http://www.h3rald.com/files/komodo_main.png

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

hi nimasam, isn't discritizer is a meshing tool. Can we do analysis in OF using this tool?:confused:

Sorry, I am new to this world.

Greetings to all!

@Devanson: the Discretizer package has two GUI applications:

• Discretizer: dedicated for drawing the geometry and meshing it using Discretizer's meshing techniques.
• Discretizer::Setup or Discretizer-Setup: dedicated to pre-processing and running cases. I'm not sure what are the current limitations, but last time I checked, it still wasn't fully operational.

Browse http://www.discretizer.org and watch the various screen casts available there, to get a better notion of what you can do with it.

As for other GUI's for OpenFOAM, you better search this forum for the keywords "GUI OpenFOAM" and also "Discretizer" for more about it. There are a few other GUI's out there, some paid, some free, but I don't know if there is any that can fully explore OpenFOAM's capabilities.
So sooner or later, you'll need to go down to the terminal and use your favourite text editor (not word processor) to modify and run your cases. This is why many of the replies where "text editor" related ;).

edit: I didn't know about this, but there is already a compiled list at openfoamwiki.net: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/GUI

Best regards,
Bruno

Please also take a look at Ennova CFD (www.ennova-cfd.com). It has CAD import, CAD cleanup, mesh generation, a GUI to set up OpenFOAM boundary conditions and other dictionary files, plus post-processing based on VTK (the same technology as Paraview). The mesh generation types include topology based as well as octtree based (like Snappyhex). Boundary layer generation. Polyhedral meshes as well as tet + prism. Full diagnostics on the mesh are available including quality, skewness, orthogonality and others. Ploting of bad elements and cut planes of the mesh are available.
Several tutorial videos are available at https://ennova-cfd.com/tutorial-videos.html and https://www.youtube.com/@wolfdynamics5703