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✨ SURFACEINFLATE ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because this one is literally the glow-up button for your surfaces 💖 it's surfaceInflate, and it's part of OpenFOAM (aka The Open Source CFD Toolbox, the iconique-est CFD suite out there, no cap).

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

surfaceInflate [OPTIONS] input distance factor

that's it. three little positional args and a whole lotta options. periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it do? It inflates a surface according to point normals. Like, it takes your surface and puffs it up along the point normals like a little balloon 🎈

It creates an inflated version of the surface, and it needs three things from you: the surface, the distance to inflate by, and an extra safety factor. That's the whole vibe. Main character energy, honestly.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • input — the input surface file. your starting point, your canvas, your before pic 🫶
  • distance — the inflate distance. how far out we're puffing, bestie.
  • factor — the extend safety factor, and it lives in the range [1,10]. yes, that's a real constraint. respect it. ⭐

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -case dir — specify the case directory to use, instead of just vibing in the current working directory (cwd). sometimes you gotta be somewhere else, and that's valid. 🏠
  • -checkSelfIntersection — also check for self-intersection. like, does the surface get tangled up in its own business? this checks that. 🙈
  • -debug — switch on additional debug information. extra tea, extra detail. 🔍
  • -featureAngle scalar — feature angle. give it a scalar, it does the thing.
  • -nSmooth integer — number of smoothing iterations, and the default is 20. so chill, so smooth ✨
  • -doc — display documentation in browser. for when you want the docs in a whole browser tab like a civilized person 🌈
  • -help — display short help and exit. quick lil snack of help. 🍓
  • -help-full — display full help and exit. the whole meal. 👑

💜 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, go off) 🔁
  • -fileHandler handler — override the file handler type. you're in charge of the file handler now, congrats. 📁
  • -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). stack 'em up 🧚
  • -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. peek behind the curtain, king 👀
  • -help-compat — display compatibility options and exit.
  • -help-man — display full help (manpage format) and exit. hi, that's this 💖
  • -help-notes — display help notes (description) and exit. the sparknotes version, love that for us 📝

🌈 COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS 🌈

  • -noFunctionObjects — this option is ignored. like, truly nothing happens. it's giving "read at 3:47pm". 💀

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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

go click it, bestie, the lore is deep 🫶

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

okay that's the whole page 🎀 thank you for coming to my ted talk, from www.openfoam.com, version OpenFOAM- (and yeah the date line is just vibes, empty, iconic of it honestly). now go inflate something. slay 💖✨

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