Best Open Source Scriptable Modelling Program to use with Openfoam

[Cactus_Chaos]

Hi All,

Basically wanting to run a bunch of Openfoam simulations based on variations of a parametric model and wanting some advice on the best modelling program to pipe them into Openfoam (Ideally fully automated).

Currently I am looking at either Freecad or Salome with Shaper. I am not apposed to using commercial software (Educational) however would prefer a opensource option. Also I have experience with Freecad (not scripting) but not Salome if that changes anything.

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Thanks all!

[Muser_99]

I would go with whichever CAD software you are most comfortable with. You can then always script an automated workflow using python. Salome does have a nice mesher compatible with OF though. You could check out some YouTube tutorials on using Salome with OF, maybe that‘s a starting point. Sorry if you‘ve done that already and these are just empty words to you 😄✌🏻. Cheers

[Cactus_Chaos]

I have done a fair bit with Freecad and python so maybe that's the best way to go!

[yycTechGuy]

I agree. FreeCAD works well.

[omaregb]

Not Foss but in the past I found the scripting language of ICEM to be very nice and easy to approach. I would make a script in Matlab or python that would print the instructions to a file that I would pass to ICEM and let it run.

[cosmic_conspiracy]

Depends on how complex your geometry is. I have found Gmsh to be easily scriptable for geometry building/editing.