Hi, It is simple to create a .foam file; just do "touch xxx.foam" in the working directory. Then point ParaView at that file and it will use the builtin openFoam reader which should offer the reconstructed/decomposed option. The empty file just tells ParaView which reader to use based on the extension. Ron
________________________________ From: ParaView [[email protected]] on behalf of Leonard Cassady [[email protected]] Sent: 30 September 2015 21:50 To: David E DeMarle Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Paraview] Correctly Parallel Processing of OpenFoam results using pvserver David, I do not have a chooser for "case type". I found a web page that shows the "case type" chooser. They were opening a .foam file. I have .OpenFOAM case. Should I consider converting the foam to VTK? On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:59 PM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Looping the list back in to the thread. Look on the properties panel when you open the file and before you hit "Apply" look for a chooser for "Case Type". The default is "Reconstructed Case" so change it to "Decomposed Case". David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909<tel:518-881-4909> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Leonard Cassady <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dave, I don't know how to switch to decomposed type. Thanks, On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: As I recall, reconstructed means that the root node does all the work. Switch to decomposed type in the reader and let us know how it works then. thanks David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909<tel:518-881-4909> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Leonard Cassady <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm attempting to use pvserver to accelerate the post-processing of my openfoam solution. I have a 48 core machine. I have correctly installed and compiled a parallel copy of paraview 4.1.0 with OpenFOAM 2.4.x. If I open a simple .obj file I can see that different parts of the surface are rendered using different processors. I can also see that the memory is shared among the parallel processes. When I open a reconstructed openFOAM solution with 20 million cells with paraview connected to 40 process pvserver, the image seems to be rendered (or processed) with only 1 processor. Is there a step that I'm missing to parallelize the reconstructed Openfoam data files for rendering? -- Leonard Cassady PhD Senior Development Engineer Intuitive Machines Cell: 281-755-2553<tel:281-755-2553> _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com<http://www.kitware.com> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview -- Leonard Cassady PhD Senior Development Engineer Intuitive Machines Cell: 281-755-2553<tel:281-755-2553> -- Leonard Cassady PhD Senior Development Engineer Intuitive Machines Cell: 281-755-2553 _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
