As a bonus, it supports all the mainstream meshing engines - blockMesh, snappyHexMesh and cfMesh. This somewhat ugly task is greatly simplified in the CfdOF workbench. Specifically mucking around defining the mesh volume, faces and mesh parameters in dictionary files. The thing I used to hate most about using OpenFOAM was generating the mesh for a simulation. It's the best of both (GUI and manual) worlds. And run simulations manually too, if needed. And yet allows the user to manually edit the simulation files if needed. I love how CfdOF generates the OpenFOAM simulation files, hides most of the complexity and groups most of the common settings into a simple GUI. Yes, OpenFOAM can be used with text files without a GUI but combining the object CAD, meshing and simulation into one GUI based application really streamlines the process. Is it much, much better than running OpenFOAM simulations manually ? Absolutely.ĬfdOF is the GUI that OpenFOAM needs to make it a mainstream CFD tool. CfdOF is a workbench in FreeCAD that allows users to run various OpenFOAM simulations.

OpenFOAM is an excellent tool, but configuring everything via text files gets old, fast. A shout out to the CfdOF developers and supporters for their fantastic work.

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