<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div> I didn't realize that there are 2 different extensions for OpenFOAM projects. I also didn't realize that Paraview had a native OpenFoam reader. What functionality (normally supplied by OpenFOAM paraFoam ) is lost when using Paraview without starting with paraFoam? I'm asking because I've heard that ParaView 4.4 is extremely fast and would like to test it out with OpenFoam files but not paraFoam. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:44 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronald.fowler@stfc.ac.uk" target="_blank">ronald.fowler@stfc.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
It is simple to create a .foam file; just do "touch xxx.foam" in the working directory. Then point ParaView at that file and it will use the builtin openFoam reader which should offer the reconstructed/decomposed option. The empty file just tells ParaView which reader to use based on the extension.<br>
Ron<br>
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Subject: Re: [Paraview] Correctly Parallel Processing of OpenFoam results using pvserver<br>
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David,<br>
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I do not have a chooser for "case type". I found a web page that shows the "case type" chooser. They were opening a .foam file. I have .OpenFOAM case.<br>
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Should I consider converting the foam to VTK?<br>
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</span><span class="">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:59 PM, David E DeMarle <<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
Looping the list back in to the thread.<br>
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Look on the properties panel when you open the file and before you hit "Apply" look for a chooser for "Case Type". The default is "Reconstructed Case" so change it to "Decomposed Case".<br>
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David E DeMarle<br>
Kitware, Inc.<br>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Leonard Cassady <<a href="mailto:lenny@intuitivemachines.com">lenny@intuitivemachines.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:lenny@intuitivemachines.com">lenny@intuitivemachines.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
Dave,<br>
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I don't know how to switch to decomposed type.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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</span><span class="">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, David E DeMarle <<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
As I recall, reconstructed means that the root node does all the work. Switch to decomposed type in the reader and let us know how it works then.<br>
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thanks<br>
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David E DeMarle<br>
Kitware, Inc.<br>
R&D Engineer<br>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Leonard Cassady <<a href="mailto:lenny@intuitivemachines.com">lenny@intuitivemachines.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:lenny@intuitivemachines.com">lenny@intuitivemachines.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
I'm attempting to use pvserver to accelerate the post-processing of my openfoam solution. I have a 48 core machine. I have correctly installed and compiled a parallel copy of paraview 4.1.0 with OpenFOAM 2.4.x. If I open a simple .obj file I can see that different parts of the surface are rendered using different processors. I can also see that the memory is shared among the parallel processes.<br>
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When I open a reconstructed openFOAM solution with 20 million cells with paraview connected to 40 process pvserver, the image seems to be rendered (or processed) with only 1 processor. Is there a step that I'm missing to parallelize the reconstructed Openfoam data files for rendering?<br>
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