{"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":"<p>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":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["934"],"siebel_km_number":["631024"],"product_version":["18"],"km_published_date":["2007-06-06T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["CFD-Post"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}