EXTRUDEMESH(1)

💖 EXTRUDEMESH 💖

okay bestie, welcome to extrudeMesh(1) from the OpenFOAM Commands Manual — this is part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox) and it's lowkey one of the most useful little gremlins in the whole toolbox. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

extrudeMesh — part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). she does one thing and she does it gorgeously 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

extrudeMesh [OPTIONS]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Extrude mesh from existing patch. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes a patch you already have and stretches it out into new mesh like it's a glow-up montage 🦋

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -case dir — Specify case directory to use (instead of the cwd). so if you're not standing in the case dir already, just point her at it 📁
• -decomposeParDict file — Use specified file for decomposePar dictionary
• -dict file — Use alternative extrudeMeshDict. not the default one, a different one, main character energy ✨
• -parallel — Run in parallel. [Parallel option] yes she can do the multitasking thing 💅
• -region name — Specify alternative mesh region
• -doc — Display documentation in browser
• -help — Display short help and exit
• -help-full — Display full help and exit

🌸 ADVANCED OPTIONS 🌸

these are the ones for when you're feeling fancy, ngl

• -debug-switch name=val — Specify the value of a registered debug switch. Default is 1 if the value is omitted. (Can be used multiple times)
• -fileHandler handler — Override the file handler type
• -hostRoots ((host1 dir1) .. (hostN dirN)) — Per-host slave root directories for distributed running. The host specification can be a regex. [Parallel option]
• -info-switch name=val — Specify the value of a registered info switch. Default is 1 if the value is omitted. (Can be used multiple times)
• -lib name — Additional library or library list to load (can be used multiple times)
• -noFunctionObjects — Do not execute function objects. she will simply NOT run them, periodt 🙈
• -opt-switch name=val — Specify the value of a registered optimisation switch (int/bool). Default is 1 if the value is omitted. (Can be used multiple times)
• -roots (dir1 .. dirN) — Slave root directories for distributed running [Parallel option]
• -doc-source — Display source code in browser
• -help-man — Display full help (manpage format) and exit
• -help-notes — Display help notes (description) and exit

ngl the switches being usable "multiple times" is giving ✨layered✨ behaviour — stack as many as you want, she's not gonna stop you 💖

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Online documentation https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ — go read it, iykyk 📚

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this lil angel lives over at www.openfoam.com, she's from the OpenFOAM- release fam, and she's filed under EXTRUDEMESH(1) in the OpenFOAM Commands Manual. go extrude something iconic 💖✨🦋🌸💅👑