[JeanDidier]

Hi,

I'm quite new on the OpenFOAM software and I'm using it for a project during my internship.
I'm actually working on OpenFOAM 2.1.1 and I wanted to mesh a part like the one in the propeller tutorial but a simpler one in order to try it by myself. The thing is that after doing "blockMesh" and "surfaceFeatureExtract" when I start to mesh, the following error occurs :

[1] --> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
[1] keyword meshQualityControls is undefined in dictionary "/home/berrichon/OpenFOAM/Test_AMI_2/processor1/system/snappyHexMeshDict"
[1]
[1] file: /home/berrichon/OpenFOAM/Test_AMI_2/processor1/system/snappyHexMeshDict from line 0 to line 0.
[1]
[1] From function dictionary::subDict(const word& keyword)
[1] in file db/dictionary/dictionary.C at line 479.
[1]
FOAM parallel run exiting

I've already searched for some similar errors in the forum and on google but it didn't help me.
I know what the error says but in my snappyHexMesh file there is the meshQualityControls with all the keywords. I checked on the user guide every keyword that should be define there and they are all here. I tried to change some values but without any success. I attached the snappyHexMesh file if you want to check it.
Maybe the error comes from my geometry / .stl files ? Or should I use .obj files ?

Thank You
Regards

[JeanDidier]

I found my mistake yesterday, so just to be helpful for other people, my typo mistake wasn't in the meshQualityControls but in the castelledMeshControls and there was one much bracket. That's why I didn't understand the error after checking so many time my meshQualityControls, so just check carefully the entire snappyHexMesh text when this error occurs.

[Dano62]

I found a similar but slightly different issue from my error. I had previously run snappyhexmesh without using -overwrite, and I believe it was referencing the most recent version instead of the newest one. I just had to delete the other folders and everything worked fine.