Decompose polyhedra and OpenFOAM

ParaView Support
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Hi,

I recently upgraded to v5.12.0 (using Windows 10) and noticed that when I use the “Decompose polyhedra” to load my OpenFOAM cases, that I get a warning that the feature is highly deprecated and will be removed in the future. My cases are often a mixture of polyhedrals and hexahedrals and here I often get a better visualization of the data when the case is loaded is polyhedra. Furthermore, I often cannot use the “Plot over line” filter when loading the case as default. I would therefore like to know whether this feature will be removed permanently or the OpenFOAM reader is going to be improved in future releases?

Best regards
Kasper.

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OpenFOAM added the possibility to decompose polyhedra internally.

Alternativaly, use the “Tetrahedralize” filter after reding your file.

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We would ideally like to remove the additional polyhedral handling, but it will still probably take quite a while (ie, don’t worry about it for now).