Openfoam paraview touch11/9/2023 If you always use paraFoam, you can take the builtin reader for a test drive by using touch open.foam to make an empty file in your case directory & read that file directly into ParaView. So, I took both readers for a spin and, whilst there was no clear winner, it turns out that I am missing out on some nice features, but they come with a big downside. When clients ask me about paraFoam my recommendation is to “use the builtin reader instead.” But what if I’m missing out by not using paraFoam? Worse, what if my clients are missing out (or I’m making their lives harder) by steering them away from paraFoam? □ Now I just use the builtin reader that ships with the Kitware binaries. Export your case, wrestle with the clunky parallel output and (eventually) visualise it in ParaView. In the olden days, foamToVTK was your best bet for getting data into ParaView. foam & is available in all ParaView versions. OpenFOAM & is only available in the ParaView versions that ship with the Foundation release (unless you want to compile it yourself). paraFoam – not the actual name of the Foundation plugin, but rather the command used to launch it.In true OpenFOAM fashion, they’re similar but different and don’t have a great way to differentiate them, let’s just call them: In fact, you have two OpenFOAM readers to choose from – a plugin maintained by the OpenFOAM Foundation and another one maintained by Kitware (the makers of ParaView). ParaView (the super-capable, open-source post-processor) can read OpenFOAM data directly – no need to export to an intermediate file format. Let me catch you up, just in case you’ve never used ParaView (it’s awesome by the way – you should take it for a spin). My gut feel is no, but let’s see… A bit of background It’s Robin from CFD Engine and whilst not American, I am thankful to be in your inbox □ This week’s note is driven by my own curiosity – am I missing out by not using paraFoam?
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