ROTATEMESH(1)

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💫 rotateMesh — bestie edition 💫

okay so. this is rotateMesh, and it's part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox). that's the manual name and the tool name all up top, we're not being mysterious about it. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rotateMesh [OPTIONS] from to

two vectors, one rotation, and the entire mesh is gonna be serving. ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

It rotates mesh points and vector/tensor fields. no cap.

The rotation goes from the <from> vector to the <to> vector. like, it takes the from vibe and rotates everything over to the to vibe. 🌈

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • from — The vector to rotate from. this is your starting point, your origin story, the "before" pic. 🙈
  • to — The vector to rotate to. the glow-up destination. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -case dir — Specify case directory to use (instead of the cwd). basically "don't look in the current directory, look here instead". 📁
  • -constant — Include the 'constant/' dir in the times list. let constant/ have its moment.
  • -decomposeParDict file — Use specified file for decomposePar dictionary. iykyk.
  • -latestTime — Select the latest time. only the newest, freshest timeline. ⭐
  • -noZero — Exclude the '0/' dir from the times list. bye bye zero, not invited.
  • -parallel — Run in parallel. [Parallel option] many cores, one dream. 🔥
  • -time ranges — List of ranges. Eg, ':10,20 40:70 1000:', 'none', etc. you get to pick exactly which time slices get the treatment.
  • -doc — Display documentation in browser. docs popping off in a new tab. 🌐
  • -help — Display short help and exit. the quick version, in and out.
  • -help-full — Display full help and exit. the everything version. 👑

👑 ADVANCED OPTIONS 👑

  • -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). bring your friends. 🫶
  • -noFunctionObjects — Do not execute function objects.
  • -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. go read the source, it's giving open book. 📖
  • -help-man — Display full help (manpage format) and exit.
  • -help-notes — Display help notes (description) and exit. 📝
heads up bestie: the -parallel, -hostRoots and -roots ones are tagged [Parallel option] — that tag is doing real work, so don't skip it. 💀

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Online documentation: https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

okay that's the whole page, and as a lil sign-off: this one lives at www.openfoam.com, under the OpenFOAM- source/version line, and it's ROTATEMESH(1) in the OpenFOAM Commands Manual. go rotate something and slay. 💅✨🦋

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