Installation ParaView for Windows version of openFOAM
Hello everybody
Im really new with the OpenFOAM, and i recently installed the Windows version of OpenFOAM, distributed by its the official website: http://www.openfoam.com/products/openfoam-windows.php but it does not consist ParaView as default. I tried to install paraview for windows but it seems openfoam doesnt still recognize it, in other hand i cant have access to the Linux environment to install it. I would appreciate if anyone could help me how i should install paraview on this version |
Greetings Kasra Karimi and welcome to the forum!
I'll quote from the README file they have on their website: http://www.openfoam.com/products/txt...dme_v3.0.0.txt Code:
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problem solved
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(for other who have the same problem): as it says in READMe file, all you have to do is to copy tutorial files into workDir(it will appear in C:\Users\Username) folder and by creating a ".foam" file of the corresponding case, so now you can easily open it through windows version of paraview |
Can't understand
Hi everyone!
I'm new at using OpenFoam and can't understand the problem. I followed the readme and your suggestion but the program gives me an error and create nothing in Windows: [ofuser@boot2docker ~]$ ls $ FOAM_RUN OpenFOAM s workingDir [ofuser@boot2docker ~]$ cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS $workingDir cp: missing destination file operand after `/opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v3.0+/tutorials' Try `cp --help' for more information. Can you help me please? :confused: |
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I think your problem is the same as mine. you should go to this website http://www.paraview.org/download/ and download the paraView software for Windows and install it. then in your case in openFoam, after making your mesh or finishing the run process, you should make a file which contains your case's informations by this command: Code:
touch cavity(or any name you want).foam that method worked for me and i hope it would be helpful for you. but as a recommendation my friend, its much easier to work with openFoam in linux. "menotu" is a version based on ubunto 12.04 that has some versions of openfoam installed on it by default, which makes it much easier and its really easy to use. Best Regards |
Access openfoam files with local drive in windows
Dear Kasra
I'm new with openFoam as well and I followed the steps up to this point. My doubt is how to access/transfer files from the virtual machine to my local drive so I can access it with Paraview. Cheers, Daniel |
I suggest you to work in ubuntu, it's way simplier! I tried to work in windows but then I abbandoned it for ubuntu
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The OF version from CFD support works fine. You find it here
http://www.cfdsupport.com/install-op...r-windows.html paraFoam is included, all works at the Windows file system. I use it. |
Thanks piu58 I will try that
Thanks for your reply. :) |
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Hi,
I installed Paraview for Windows and it appears to load fine, however I cannot see anything in my viewer, it's literally a back screen. For example, attached in this post is what I see when I load the can.ex2 tutorial. Literally black in the model viewer. I tried adjusting the camera angles, the opacity and the light, viewed surfaces, edges, points, all of these options show the same thing. Same for any other case I tried, including the cavity tutorial. The variables appear to have been loaded fine and the variable ranges are in fact as expected, so it looks like a visualisation problem to me. Anyone else come across it? Have I missed something stupid? Use of Linux is not an option for me so that's out the window. Thanks. |
Ok figured it out, I had downloaded a RC1 version of 5.4. I uninstalled that and installed stable 5.3 which works fine. Anyone interested, I guess avoid 5.4 until it becomes stable too.
Cheers, Christa |
Blacks Screen = Known Bug w/Paraview v5.4 or not?
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Has anyone else verified the buggy v5.4 "black screen" issue?
I'm running the docker container version of OpenFOAM.com's paraview, which IS v5.4, and which gives this useless black-window issue: Attachment 60813 I don't know if it's a paraview bug.. a docker container issue.. a VM issue.. or what.. I'm going to try installing v5.3 outside the container and see what that gets me. Tweeks |
I think one step is missing here. As explained in this nice video you need to convert the project using foamToVTK first and then make the empty dummy .foam file.
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Thanks for the tip foadsf. Using foamToVTK allowed me to visualize meshes at least.
Also user_of_cfx I have found that paraview 5.4+ appears to load .foam cases just fine on Windows 10. I came across the issue only only when using a Windows 7 machine. |
Installation of paraview
Hai I am new to OpenFOAM and I would like to know the procedure to install paraview. I followed the procedure mentioned in this link: https://www.albertopassalacqua.com/?p=1648
but the error : ''Unable to locate package paraview'' appears . What should I do? |
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