[Paraview] Exporting ICEM CFD Mesh to ParaView

[Adriano Gagliardi]

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.
 
Adriano
 

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Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
On Behalf Of Rafael Castaneda
Sent: 19 January 2010 13:53
To: Berk Geveci; Mark.Olesen at emcontechnologies.com
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Exporting ICEM CFD Mesh to ParaView


Hi,

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. 

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.

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 ! 

Thanks a lot for your help,
Rafael Castaneda.


2010/1/19 Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>


Out of curiosity, what is the difference between parts and blocks? Or
are you using them
interchangeably?



On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rafael Castaneda <ramacaneto at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to export a mesh generated in ICEM CFD to ParaView. I realized
> that I can export the mesh to Exodus II format and then open it with
> ParaView, but no information about the parts of the mesh is loaded, just
the
> blocks.
>
> Any reader available to export geometry and mesh from ICEM CFD to ParaView
?
> I would like that the MultiBlockDataSet generated as result have
information
> about the parts created in ICEM CFD.
>
> Regards,
> Castaneda.
>

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