[samiam1000]

Dear All,

I am attaching my case. I am just trying to mesh a very simple stl file.

But something goes wrong:

szampini@archimede:~/Documenti/Afros/CFDSimulations/testRTM$ snappyHexMesh 
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.3.1                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Build  : 2.3.1-262087cdf8db
Exec   : snappyHexMesh
Date   : Feb 03 2015
Time   : 14:00:49
Host   : "archimede"
PID    : 5434
Case   : /home/szampini/Documenti/Afros/CFDSimulations/testRTM
nProcs : 1
sigFpe : Enabling floating point exception trapping (FOAM_SIGFPE).
fileModificationChecking : Monitoring run-time modified files using timeStampMaster
allowSystemOperations : Allowing user-supplied system call operations

// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //
Create time

Create mesh for time = 0

Read mesh in = 0.36 s

Overall mesh bounding box  : (-249.5 -159.5 -180) (249.5 159.5 -120)
Relative tolerance         : 1e-06
Absolute matching distance : 0.000595283

#0  Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:?
#1  Foam::sigSegv::sigHandler(int) at ??:?
#2   in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"
#3  STLLexer::lex() at ??:?
#4  Foam::triSurface::readSTLASCII(Foam::fileName const&) at ??:?
#5  Foam::triSurface::readSTL(Foam::fileName const&) at ??:?
#6  Foam::triSurface::read(Foam::fileName const&, Foam::word const&, bool) at ??:?
#7  Foam::triSurface::triSurface(Foam::fileName const&) at ??:?
#8  Foam::triSurfaceMesh::triSurfaceMesh(Foam::IOobject const&, Foam::dictionary const&) at ??:?
#9  Foam::searchableSurface::adddictConstructorToTable<Foam::triSurfaceMesh>::New(Foam::IOobject const&, Foam::dictionary const&) at ??:?
#10  Foam::searchableSurface::New(Foam::word const&, Foam::IOobject const&, Foam::dictionary const&) at ??:?
#11  Foam::searchableSurfaces::searchableSurfaces(Foam::IOobject const&, Foam::dictionary const&, bool) at ??:?
#12  
 at ??:?
#13  __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"
#14  
 at ??:?
Errore di segmentazione (core dump creato)
szampini@archimede:~/Documenti/Afros/CFDSimulations/testRTM$

and this is the error that I get.

Could anyone help, please?

Thanks a lot,
Samuele

[alexeym]

Hi,

AFAIK STL file should be in ASCII format.

[samiam1000]

You're right, thanks a lot,

Samuele