Integration with FreeCAD by Stefan Radl

• contributor: Stefan Radl
• affiliation: Technische Universität Graz, Austria
• contact: click here for email address
• OpenFOAM version: any (tested for 4.0 and 5.0)
• Published under: CC BY-SA license (creative commons licenses)

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Intro and Purpose

The tutorial below will explain what FreeCAD is, and why you should consider it to use it in connection with OpenFOAM. The "CfdOF" module ("workbench) in FreeCAD is briefly discussed, since it demonstrates a direct integration of FreeCAD with OpenFOAM.

The FreeCAD file and the resulting case (written by CfdOF) can be found HERE

Geometry and Surface Mesh Generation with FreeCAD

The training material is split into the following sessions:

• D.1: Introduction

• D.2: Overview & Spreadsheet Basics

• D.3: Spreadsheet and Sketches

• D.4: From sketch to 3D body

• D.5: 3D Model and Facebinder

• D.6: Facebinder coloring and STL Surface Mesh

• D.7: STL naming, scaling, and export

• D.8: The CfdOF Workbench