[boffin5]

Hi,
Initially I had a problem with getting #calc to work in a blockMeshDict file. But with suggestions from this forum regarding sudo apt-get updates, I got it to work.
But then, I copied blockMeshDict to a run directory for a different simulation, and it fails again:


"creating block mesh from "system/blockMeshDict" using #calcEntry at line 31 in file "....blockMeshDict" --> FOAM FATAL ERROR
(line 31 is the one with lx #calc, below)


The same Dict file works in one run directory, but not in another one!



This is truly perplexing! I even ran the updates in the new directory, but it didn't help. Any ideas as to this inconsistency?
Here are the lines in blockMeshDict in question:


xmin -3;
xmax 5;
ymin -2;
ymax 2;
zmin 0;
zmax 2;
deltax 0.1; //cell size in meters
deltay 0.1;
deltaz 0.1;
lx #calc "($xmax) - ($xmin)";
ly #calc "($ymax) - ($ymin)";
lz #calc "($zmax) - ($zmin)";
xcells #calc "round($lx)/($deltax)";
ycells #calc "round($ly)/($deltay)";
zcells #calc "round($lz)/($deltaz)";

Thanks in advance, Alan





























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[HPE]

Please completely abandon "#calc" and start using "#eval" directive (link) which is faster, cleaner and stable.

I don't see any lexical or semantic problem in the #calcs.

May be the actual problem is that #calc could not be compiled due to some sudo rights, because the error message indicates the first #calc? If that's the case just use #eval since it does not need any compilation (or if you insist on #calc, please ensure that you have proper file rights allowing compilations).

Hope this helps a bit.

[Voulet]

Hi.


In case it may help future generations : I had the following error while using #calc :

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR: 
Failed wmake "dynamicCode/_88c28f6ea7aee10af5a41c01cc48ce917ab7d4a3/platforms/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/lib/libcodeStream_88c28f6ea7aee10af5a41c01cc48ce917ab7d4a3.so"


file: /home/user/testOF/testNewSolver/test1:1/system/blockMeshDict from line 17 to line 17.

    From function static void (* Foam::functionEntries::codeStream::getFunction(const Foam::dictionary&, const Foam::dictionary&))(Foam::Ostream&, const Foam::dictionary&)
    in file db/dictionary/functionEntries/codeStream/codeStream.C at line 211.

And it was because the name of my case folder contain "regular like expressions" as it was named test1:1.

I've just named it more normally and it now works.