SURFACECONVERT(1)

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💅 SURFACECONVERT(1) 💅

okay bestie, so this is surfaceConvert — part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox), and it's living its best life in the OpenFOAM Commands Manual. yes it's a manual page. yes it's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

surfaceConvert [OPTIONS] input output

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Convert between surface formats, using triSurface library components 💖

that's it. that's the job. it takes your surface and it makes it a different kind of surface. glow-up complete ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • input — The input surface file. your starting point, your before-pic 📸
  • output — The output surface file. the after-pic, the main character 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -case dir — Specify case directory to use (instead of the cwd). like, where are we doing this, bestie
  • -clean — Perform some surface checking/cleanup on the input surface 🧼 get that surface its skincare routine
  • -group — Reorder faces into groups; one per region 🗂️
  • -precision int — Write to output with the specified precision. how many digits you wanna spill
  • -scale factor — Input geometry scaling factor 📏
  • -doc — Display documentation in browser 🌐
  • -help — Display short help and exit
  • -help-full — Display full help and exit

🔥 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
  • -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 🚫
  • -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)
  • -doc-source — Display source code in browser 📄
  • -help-compat — Display compatibility options and exit
  • -help-man — Display full help (manpage format) and exit
  • -help-notes — Display help notes (description) and exit

🧚 COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS 🧚

  • -writePrecision (now -precision) — The option was last used in 1812.
ngl, this one is giving "throwback". it's the old name, it was last used in 1812, and it's literally been replaced by -precision. don't come for it, it's retired 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Online documentation <https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/> — go read, iykyk

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

that's the whole page, bestie, no notes 💖 this was SURFACECONVERT(1) from the www.openfoam.com OpenFOAM- commands manual, and yeah we ate that. periodt. 🎀✨🦋

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