{"id":171089,"date":"2023-06-05T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/as-well-as-for-traditional-post-processing-tasks-cfd-post-is-very-useful-for-viewing-meshes-certain-file-types-can-be-loaded-directly-into-cfd-post-def-gtm-cgns-but-what-about-the-others\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:30:01","slug":"as-well-as-for-traditional-post-processing-tasks-cfd-post-is-very-useful-for-viewing-meshes-certain-file-types-can-be-loaded-directly-into-cfd-post-def-gtm-cgns-but-what-about-the-others","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/as-well-as-for-traditional-post-processing-tasks-cfd-post-is-very-useful-for-viewing-meshes-certain-file-types-can-be-loaded-directly-into-cfd-post-def-gtm-cgns-but-what-about-the-others\/","title":{"rendered":"As well as for traditional post-processing tasks, CFD-Post is very useful for viewing meshes. Certain file types can be loaded directly into CFD-Post (.def, .gtm, .cgns), but what about the others?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course CFX-Pre can be used to import the mesh and generate a .def file, but this is overkill, especially if the process is to be repeated many times. If the user is not averse to a little command line work, then cfx5gtmconv can be be a great time-saver. The cfx5gtmconv utility allows a wide variety of mesh formats to be converted to a format viewable in CFX-Post. The following command would create a minimal .def file from an ICEM mesh file, where project1.cfx5 is the file output from ICEM and test1.def if the file to be created: cfx5gtmconv -icem project1.cfx5 test1.def The first argument denotes the input file type and can be omitted in cases where the file extension is recognised by cfx5gtmconv. For example, a CFX-4 mesh could be converted as follows: cfx5gtmconv m01.geo test1.def A list of compatible file types and additional options accepted by cfx5gtmconv can be obtained by running: cfx5gtmconv -help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-171089","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4422","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t