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April 6, 2010, 10:33 |
External mesh crawls into car model. Holes in STL model?
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Mads Reck
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Hi.
I have a geometry of a car in STL and I have generated a blockMesh around it with cell-aspect ratio of unity. I can generate a snappyHexMesh without problems, except for the following: I can only surface-refine up to around level (2 2). If I go to higher refinement ratios (say level (5 5)), the mesh crawls into my geometry and fills the inside of the car as well as the outside. I am not entirely sure that my STL file is completely watertight but I can't SEE any holes so if they are there, they must be VERY small. The STL is quite coarse though. I am going to make a small program which checks my STL for holes but before that I was wondering if you guys had any hints on this. Thanks in advance, it would be a GREAT help. /Mads ps. I already read the STL into meshLab and "closed holes" without any more luck pps. I've made a test-cube out of 12 simple STL surfaces and that one I can surface-refine to "infinity".
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April 6, 2010, 14:29 |
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Bruno Santos
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Hi Mads,
My experience with snappyHexMesh is still a bit limited, but there are two other reasons that come to mind that could influence the mesh leaking inside:
Best regards, Bruno |
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April 7, 2010, 03:16 |
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Vincent RIVOLA
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Hi mads,
I would say that there must be a hole somewhere. It is sometime difficult to find, but there must be one. The last time I had a similar problem I used the program AdMesh which is free. With the option --fill-holes, it worked for me and gave me a watertight surface. You can give it a try. Regards, Vincent |
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May 12, 2010, 14:30 |
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Thanks Vincent,
Admesh solved that "hole" problem and provided me with the translate option which I had been looking for all weekend! -Louis |
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May 27, 2010, 11:04 |
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Peter Wiemeyer
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Hi,
only two small points that I want to add: 1.) with transformPoints you've a lot of functions in OF directly as well 2.) find a hole is quite easy as you define two points (one inside the domain that should be meshed, and one outside) and just write a small program that finds a way to connect those two points. (For very nice programming with only medium skills in c++ you should plan 1-2 days for it) Perhaps I will put my program online some day but at the moment I can't because of company restrictions. Best Regards, Peter |
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October 22, 2013, 06:34 |
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Hi Peter,
Would you mind sharing some details on what your script does roughly? What's the concept at the bottom of it to try and connect the two points? Thanks! |
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October 26, 2013, 06:07 |
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Bruno Santos
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Greetings to all!
@lovecraft22: If I'm not mistaken, as of OpenFOAM 2.0.0, there is a utility in OpenFOAM named surfaceClean which can help close holes, as well as fixing some other issues in STL files. Best regards, Bruno
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October 26, 2013, 11:21 |
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Thanks Bruno. I'm not using OpenFoam at the moment. I found such a function in ANSA 14.x but I was interested in making such a script by myself anyway.
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car, external flow, snappyhexmesh |
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