[m_ridzon]

I recently got pyFoamPlotWatcher working. It was brought to my attention in another posting (https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/190035-gnuplot-doesnt-zoom-pyfoamplotwatcher.html#post655804) that gnuplot zoom functions may not work properly with pyFoamPlotWatcher. As shown in the attachments, residual plots can look very busy and blurry. So having the option to zoom would be quite useful. Therefore, does anyone know of an alternative tool, aside from pyFoamPlotWatcher, that could be used to view the residuals in real-time during the solution?

Note that I'm using OpenFoam 2.4.0, on OpenSuse 13.2, Gnome 3.14.1.

Thanks in advance,
M Ridzon

[floquation]

Rather than looking an alternative, won't this do the trick?

$ pyFoamPlotWatcher.py --help

(...)

Limits
------
Where the plots should start and end

--start=START           Start time starting from which the data should be
                        plotted. If undefined the initial time is used
--end=END               End time until which the data should be plotted. If
                        undefined it is plotted till the end

(...)

[GerhardHolzinger]

Use the residuals function object to write the residuals to a file in the postProcessing folder. Then, you can use any tool (gnuplot, octave, ...) you prefer to watch the residuals

[m_ridzon]

Originally Posted by floquation

Rather than looking an alternative, won't this do the trick?

$ pyFoamPlotWatcher.py --help

(...)

Limits
------
Where the plots should start and end

--start=START           Start time starting from which the data should be
                        plotted. If undefined the initial time is used
--end=END               End time until which the data should be plotted. If
                        undefined it is plotted till the end

(...)

Dynamic zoom in the plot window would have been golden. Since it seems that feature isn't available though, this alternative seems like it should do almost as good.

Thanks!!
M Ridzon