Visualizing OpenFOAM VTK files in GiD

Hosam · Post by **Hosam** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:27 am

Hi,

We have VTK results generated by OpenFOAM and want to use GiD for post-processing. Is this possible?

Thanks!
Hosam

Post by **escolano** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:49 am

Go to postprocess and use Files->Import->Vtk...

Hosam · Post by **Hosam** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:27 am

Thanks!

Hosam · Post by **Hosam** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:39 am

escolano wrote:Go to postprocess and use Files->Import->Vtk...

It worked for only one vtk file at a time. Is it possible to visualize a series of VTK files (each one corresponding to a time step), for example:
sim_0.vtk
sim_1.vtk
sim_2.vtk
sim_3.vtk
sim_4.vtk
sim_5.vtk
sim_6.vtk
sim_7.vtk
sim_8.vtk
sim_9.vtk
.
.

to generate an animation for example, or a graph over time?

Thanks,
Hosam

Post by **escolano** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 12:12 pm

the dialog window of Files->Import->Vtk... allow the selection of multiple files,
select all vtk files: sim_XX.vtk

The time step will be obtained from XX (Vtk unfortunatelly doesn't support the concept of time step, and this value is codified as a trick in the filenames)

Then you will have in GiD a results along the time and you could do animations, show graphs along the time, etc.

Hosam · Post by **Hosam** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:50 am

It worked. Thanks!

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