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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=214222414-19012010>Are
you sure that all the information exists in the output file from ICEM? I know
from past experience that when outputing a Plot3D file after using ICEM Hexa
that none of the boundary information was included. There is an output format
known as Multiblock-Info that should contain the information you want (at least
the boundary names on the faces), but I don't think ParaView can read it in. I'd
output the file formats you have tried again in ASCII format and have a look to
see if this information you are after is actually there.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>===================================<BR><BR>Adriano Gagliardi
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> paraview-bounces@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Rafael
Castaneda<BR><B>Sent:</B> 19 January 2010 13:53<BR><B>To:</B> Berk Geveci;
Mark.Olesen@emcontechnologies.com<BR><B>Cc:</B>
paraview@paraview.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paraview] Exporting ICEM CFD Mesh
to ParaView<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>thanks for answering. I've programmed a plugin for CFD
preprocessing purposes (I mean, setting boundary and initial conditions, solver
parameters and so on) and I would like that a user could make a model+mesh in
ICEM CFD and export it to ParaView. When using ICEM CFD, one usually creates
parts, which are grouping of 2D geometric entities, so that one can distinguish
between different regions to attribute different BC's or IC's. The user also
must create a domain, which is actually the 3D physical domain in which there is
a flow. <BR><BR>When I export to exodus II format, just the 3D Physical Domain
is created as a block in the Multiblock Dataset, the 2D geometric entities, the
parts, are not created. But I really need this information, so that I can
distinguish the parts of the Model in my plugin and allow the user to select
them to associate conditions. I tried exporting to fluent format in ICEM CFD,
then opening with Fluent, saving as .cas file (which ParaView can read), but
also: no information about the parts.<BR><BR>The question is: is there any
format or reader, available in VTK or ParaView that is known to read ICEM CFD
Meshes with ALL the information ? I'm pretty sure someone somewhere already
needed this ! <BR><BR>Thanks a lot for your help,<BR>Rafael Castaneda.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2010/1/19 Berk Geveci <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Out
of curiosity, what is the difference between parts and blocks? Or<BR>are you
using them<BR>interchangeably?<BR>
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<DIV class=h5><BR><BR>On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rafael Castaneda
<<A href="mailto:ramacaneto@gmail.com">ramacaneto@gmail.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>> Hi,<BR>><BR>> I'm trying to export a mesh generated in
ICEM CFD to ParaView. I realized<BR>> that I can export the mesh to Exodus
II format and then open it with<BR>> ParaView, but no information about the
parts of the mesh is loaded, just the<BR>> blocks.<BR>><BR>> Any
reader available to export geometry and mesh from ICEM CFD to ParaView
?<BR>> I would like that the MultiBlockDataSet generated as result have
information<BR>> about the parts created in ICEM CFD.<BR>><BR>>
Regards,<BR>> Castaneda.<BR>><BR></DIV></DIV>>
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