Prosurf to Proam problems, help please

William Wallace

Hello everyone, I'm currently a student at university doing my final year project on the analysis of an engine intake system, basically its a mid engined supercar and my aim is to analise it in the current forum both in the wind tunnel and in CFD then redesign it and compare results.

Ok now I'm very new at using this software (V3.150A) and am having trouble importing the files from prosurf into proam. On importing the iges file into prosurf there are obviously a lot of errors. I've ran auto repair varying the tolerances until the errors are at the minimum amount that I can get them to. My problem is that I still have 199 free curve errors but when I generate the surface grid no errors are shown other than the curve errors.

Here's a grab of the model prior to the grid

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...0/prosurf1.jpg

And after the grid

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...0/prosurf2.jpg

Now I save the prosurf files as prostar .vrt and .cell files but when I go to import them into Proam the screen just goes white and displays the following in the output window;

PRO *> !************************************************* **********!

PRO *> !* *!

PRO *> !* PROSTAR INITIALIZATIONS: FILE PROINIT *!

PRO *> !* *!

PRO *> !* THIS FILE CONTAINS ALL COMMANDS RUN BY PROSTAR ON *!

PRO *> !* STARTUP. *!

PRO *> !* EDIT THIS FILE TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE COMMANDS AS *!

PRO *> !* NECESSARY *!

PRO *> !* PRO *> !************************************************* **********!

PRO *> !

PRO *> !OPEN NOVICE PANEL

PRO *> OPANEL,TOOL ENTER A TOOL NAME

OPAN*> EASY

PRO *>

PRO *> no library has been specified for Tcl on line 1 in init.tcl dbase,open KZ1 Air Intake.dbs

AMM *> dbase,list

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> view,1,1,1

VIEWING DIRECTION FOR PLOT IS: 1.00000 1.00000 1.00000 IN GLOBAL COORDINATE SYSTEM

PLOT*> MEMOR MAXBRK 30000$MEMOR WRITE **NOTE - ALLOCATING MEMORY **NOTE - CHANGED PARAMETER MAXSC1 FROM 360000 TO 3002148 **NOTE - CHANGED PARAMETER MAXINF FROM 1252433 TO 1724357 **NOTE - ALLOCATING MEMORY **NOTE - CHANGED PARAMETER MAXSC2 FROM 2516915 TO 3460762 **NOTE - CHANGED PARAMETER MAXBRK FROM 3558 TO 30000

PRO *>

WROTE CURRENT PARAMETERS TO FILE param.prp OLD param.prp MOVED TO param.bak

PRO *> *IF DEBUG NE 1$OFILE,"./tmp/IMPORT_LOG.TMP"$*ENDIF $! SUPPRESS OUTPUT

PRO *>

PRO *>

PRO *> ! SUPPRESS OUTPUT

PRO *> safety error off

PRO *> tcl,done

AMM *> close, ./KZ1 Air Intake.cel

PRO *> plty,ehid$light 1 on center

PLOT*>

PLOT*> plme,on

PLOT*> window 0,0,15,15$pldi,off,info$lswitch shade

PLOT*>

PLOT*>

PLOT*> clrmode reverse

PLOT*> vstyle,3,6,0

PLOT*> zoom,off

PLOT*> angle,,

PLOT*> cdis,off,all

PLOT*> direction read

CONV*> *get mxco mxce

CONV*> cset,,$vset,news,cset$*get mxve mxve

PLOT*>

PLOT*>

PLOT*> cread "./KZ1 Air Intake.cel" mxve,,,add,Coded,,50

MESH*> vread "./KZ1 Air Intake.vrt" mxve,,,Coded

MESH*> *get mxce mxce

MESH*> cset,news,,mxco + 1,mxce

PLOT*> *IF DEBUG NE 1$OFILE NONE$*ENDIF $! SUPPRESS OUTPUT

PLOT*> clrp 20 1000 nplot clrt geom 1 1,1,1 clrt geom 2 1.,0,0 clrt geom 3 0,1,0 clrt geom 4 .0,0,1 clrt geom 5 1.0,0.5,0.0 clrt geom 6 0.7,0.5,0.7 clrt geom 7 0.9,0.8,0.5 clrt geom 8 0.5,0.5,0.7 clrt geom 9 0.5,0.7,0.5 clrt geom 10 0.55,0.5,0.5 clrt geom 11 0.7,0.5,0.5 clrt geom 12 0.,1.,1. clrt geom 13 1.,0.,1.0 clrt geom 14 1.,1.,0 clrt geom 15 0.5,0.5,0.9 clrt geom 16 0.5,0.92,0.7 clrt geom 17 0.8,0.9,0.8 clrt geom 18 0.7,0.6,0.7 clrt geom 19 0.57,0.8,0.9 clrt geom 20 0.7,0.3,0.38 lmat,1,.2 ofile,screen OUTPUT SWITCHED TO SCREEN

PRO *> safety error on ERROR LISTING WILL BE SUMMARIZED

PRO *> close "./tmp/IMPORT_LOG.TMP" FILE ./tmp/import_log.tmp CLOSED

PRO *> batch,on BATCH MODE TURNED ON

PRO *> count,cell

NO CELLS DEFINED

UTIL*> batch,off BATCH MODE TURNED OFF

PRO *> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> pltb,on PLOT IN BACKGROUND THEN POP TO DISPLAY

PLOT*> cplot **WARNING - NO CELLS SELECTED FOR PLOTTING **ERROR - NO ITEMS SELECTED FOR PLOTTING

PLOT*> pltb,off PLOT DIRECTLY TO THE DISPLAY

PLOT*> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

AMM *> setw,IMPORTSET.TMP,1 WRITING CURRENT SET DATABASE TO FILE importset.tmp WITH IDENT= 1 WRITE COMPLETED

UTIL*> close,all FILE ./kz1 CLOSED

PRO *> tcl,done

AMM *> tcl,done

Sorry to bombard you guys/girls with all this info but I thought it would give a better indication where I'm going wrong. I'm running 32 bit windows XP.

Regards

William Wallace