openfoam designer 1.0 - quick guide

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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.

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