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March 16, 2015, 10:48 |
opening .stl file in paraview
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Gokul
Join Date: Mar 2015
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hello foamers!
Im trying to simulate the external flow over cars. hence in the meshing stage i tried viewing the .stl file of the car in paraview. this is what i did i copied the stl file in the triSurface directory in the constant directory. created a controlDict and surfaceFeatureExtractDict file in system directory. i tried extracting the features by typing surfaceFeatureExtract in the terminal. two files were formed in the constant and triSurface folders. then i tried viewing in paraview and got this error message ERROR: In /home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.1/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PV4Readers/PV4FoamReader/PV4FoamReader/vtkPV4FoamReader.cxx, line 216 vtkPV4FoamReader (0xac411b8): could not find valid OpenFOAM mesh ERROR: In /home/openfoam/OpenFOAM/ParaView-4.1.0/VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 754 vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0xac4b488): Algorithm vtkPV4FoamReader(0xac411b8) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0xac505d0) Debug: Off Modified Time: 91220 Reference Count: 1 Registered Events: (none) Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0 ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1 what does this mean? I should be able to view the car in paraview before forming the background mesh , right? thanks in advance |
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March 16, 2015, 14:41 |
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Pascal Balz
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Germany
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Hi,
the error message states what's wrong: Quote:
1. Create the background mesh, start paraFoam and load the stl file. 2. Load the stl file by starting Code:
paraview Code:
endsolid Code:
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March 16, 2015, 15:37 |
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Gokul
Join Date: Mar 2015
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Pascal!!!!
thanks a lot , i first did blockMesh then opened paraview to view the background mesh. I then separately loaded the stl file. i can view it now. |
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