feature request: Viewing and editing OpenFOAM blockMeshDict in FreeCAD?

[bernd]

I would like to give it a try too. Would you post an example blockmeshfile?

[foadsf]

There are lot of blockMeshFiles available here in OpenFOAM tutorials. A very good example has been mentioned here in this StackOverflow post.

[bernd]

There are lot of blockMeshFiles available here in OpenFOAM tutorials. A very good example has been mentioned here in this StackOverflow post.

ok than the attached file will be my test case ...


remove txt ...

[bernd]

played a bit ... https://github.com/berndhahnebach/FreeC ... f8426bd887

we really should include it as FEM mesh. I'm not good at re module at all. Do you plan to read the hexaeder too? If yes I would adapt the reader I started to read a real FEM mesh in FreeCAD. I would just need a dictionary, with the node numbers for each hexaeder.

bernd

[foadsf]

cool. I see you have already started integrating into the FreeCAD and sent a pull request? next logical steps would be:

• connect the points which are in the same face and put the face title/number in center
• put the hex name/number in the middle of the block
• file a better way of showing text, the

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  Draft.makeText([str(vertexNum)],point=FreeCAD.Vector(vertex[0],vertex[1],vertex[2]))

  is utterly awful! i would prefer a solution like the one I have suggested in this question where the text is proportional to the window size and always parallel to the view plane

[bernd]

as I said, I'm not good at re module at all. For the hex elements I would need a dictionary, with the node numbers for each hexaeder. Would you add this to your code?

[foadsf]

i will try implementing it. would you be so kind to help me with the annotation?

[foadsf]

The blockMesh has this nice feature of

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blockMesh  -blockTopology

which

write block edges and centres as .obj files

. and then two .obg files can be imported into MeshLab. What we are developing can replace that.

[bernd]

i will try implementing it. would you be so kind to help me with the annotation?

once we have the hexaeder I will show you something better than Draft to visualize the mesh

In the regard of the annotation. This should be dissussed once the mesh can be imported as FemMesh.

bernd

[foadsf]

I'm talking to one of the SO guys over here for the rest of the re stuff over here. feel free to join.