ESyS-Particle

visible mesh

Asked by Oguz Cebeci

Hello,
I am new to ESyS, so sorry for dump questions.
My question: Is there any method for making the mesh walls visible? Mesh importet with:

sim.readMesh(
   fileName = "floorMesh.msh",
   meshName = "floor_mesh_wall"
)

For example, to see the wall with POVsnaps

Thanks for help,
best regards

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Best Dion Weatherley (d-weatherley) said : 		#1

Hello Oguz,

Welcome to ESyS-Particle!

Although I think it is possible to visualise meshes via ESyS-Particle's POVray module, I do not have any examples at hand on how to do this. When I wish to visualise the mesh, I typically include a CheckPointer (section 2.2.2 of the Tutorial-v.2.3) then use dump2vtk to convert checkpoint files to VTK files that can be visualised using packages such as ParaView or VisIt. To generate VTK files containing the mesh, one needs to add the '-mesh' argument to the dump2vtk command line.

For example:
dump2vtk -i snapshot -o snaps_ -rot -mesh -t 0 10 1000

will convert checkpoint files with filename prefix 'snapshot' into VTK files whose prefix will be 'snaps_' as well as an additional set of VTK files containing mesh information. More information about dump2vtk is available in section 3.3 of the Tutorial-v2.3.

Cheers,

Dion

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Oguz Cebeci (oce1907) said : 		#2

Thanks Dion Weatherley, that solved my question.