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OpenFOAM Designer version 1.0
Quick Guide
Welcome to the OpenFOAM Designer, the working environment for OpenFOAM
applications. Although its use is intuitively straight-forward, we thought it helpful to
mention here a few recommendations.
1. o work-out an OpenFOAM tutorial caseopen a new case !select menu File|New
caseor press the New casetool"ar "utton#. $n the appearing dialog "o% select the
directory that will host the case to "e created !fill-in the Create case inte%t "o%#.
&ive the case a name !te%t "o% Case name# and then press "utton Viewto select
the template !templates are actually tutorial cases# for your case. OpenFOAM
'esigner will create a copy of the selected template. his is your case( you can editit and process it with OpenFOAM applications without modifying the original case.
). *ou can save a case as a template, if you want to e%periment with it or plan to apply
alternative processing schemes, "y simply pressing the Save template tool"ar
"utton or selecting Save templatefrom the File menu. A template can only "e
saved in the templates su"-directory.
+. o manipulate a case !edit files, add new ones etc.# right click on a file in the Case
view!window on the left# or use the menus. $f you need an operation that is not
supported "y OpenFOAM 'esigner, open the Operating System folderof your
case, "y selecting menu View|Case folderor press the Case foldertool"ar "utton.*ou can do any operation provided "y the ystem and then select Refreshon the
Viewmenu to notify OpenFOAM 'esigner that something has changed in the file
system !in the present edition the application does not monitor the file system to
automatically detect changes#.
. o display a short description of a tool"ar "utton or a menu, ust place the mouse
pointer on it and read the displayed message on thestatus bar.
/. o edit a file which is part of your case dou"le-click it. *ou can also select menu
File|Open. o edit a file that is not part of the case use File|Open file. he full path
of a file currently "eing edited is displayed in a small window ust a"ove the status
"ar. *ou can move this window to another comforta"le place if you like.
0. o run an OpenFOAM application on your case, first select it from the window on
the right from the tab bar select the ind of the application !Solvers, Mesh
!tilities, "ostprocessingand #tilities# and then its category. For e%ample to select
$locMesh select Mesh !tilities from the ta" "ar and then generation. $n the
appearing drop-down window select $locMesh. 2ight click to display the
application3s pop-up menu. elect Chec to see if it is actually present. For
documentation press Doc!mentationor %elp. 4ress Startto run the application in
default mode!usually without arguments in case3s path#. ince this is in many cases
not appropriate, you can use C!stomise to tailor the way you want to run the
application. Once having defined a custom way of running an application, you can
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use Start c!stomto run it the way you have defined.
5. As said in the previous section, to tell OpenFOAM 'esigner how you want to run
an application, use C!stomise from its pop-up menu. When this is selected, the
customisation dialog "o% appears. 6se the %elp"utton on the "ottom of the dialog"o% to get help how to use this feature.
7. $f you prefer to run OpenFOAM applications from the command line, a console,
fully configured for this purpose, is availa"le "y selecting OpenFOAM console
from the &oolsmenu or the toolbar.
8. o use "araview, after you have processed your case !you have to at least create a
mesh#, create a file in your case directory, giving it the name of your case and
e%tension .OpenFOAM. For e%ample, assuming your case is c9o"9mycases9case1,
create in this directory an empty file named case1.OpenFOAM. his is re:uired "y
4araview to load your case. 4ress the "araviewtoolbar"utton or select "araview
from the &oolsmenu to start 4araview and follow the instructions. *ou can alsostart 4araview from an OpenFOAM console !section 7#.
1;. *ou can change the appearance of OpenFOAM Designer "y changing its &6$
style. o do this, open the OpenFOAM 'esigner desktop shortcut properties "y
right-clicking on it, select "roperties in the appearing pop-up menu, select ta"
Shortc!tin the appearing dialog "o% and modify te%t "o% &argetfrom, say
c9cfd9OpenFOAM-1./9ofdesign.e%e, to
c9cfd9OpenFOAM-1./9ofdesign.e%e -style plasti:ue
$n this way OpenFOAM 'esigner will appear inplastiquestyle.
For "ug reports, feature re:uests, improvement suggestions etc. send your e-mail toulian17
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