[mirko]

Hello,

I have a run that generated about 2GB of data. Is there a way for me to compress the result files, but so that paraview can still open them for display

Thanks,

Mirko

[deepsterblue]

foamFormatConvert should do it for you. Just change the writeCompression entry in system/controlDict to 'compressed'. It seems to be hard-wired for ascii, but a simple switch to IOstream::BINARY should do the trick for binary output.

I think the PV3FoamReader can handle binary/compressed formats (or is that only in Takuya's native/parallel version? Can't remember).

[mirko]

Originally Posted by deepsterblue

foamFormatConvert should do it for you. Just change the writeCompression entry in system/controlDict to 'compressed'. It seems to be hard-wired for ascii, but a simple switch to IOstream::BINARY should do the trick for binary output.

I think the PV3FoamReader can handle binary/compressed formats (or is that only in Takuya's native/parallel version? Can't remember).

Thank you.

Since I did not see this mentioned anywhere explicitly:

for chtMultiRegionFoam, I had to specify the -region argument in order for the fields in XYZ/region/U|T|rho|... to be processed.

Mirko