README.md

Loci/CHEM Plugin for Pointwise

This plugin was developed by ATA Engineering to export grids from Pointwise directly to Loci/CHEM's vog format. Using CAE export, portions of the vars file may also be generated. It should be noted that this plugin does not optimize the grid layout as is done by the Loci grid converstion utilities (e.g. ccm2vog, ugrid2vog, etc). Testing has indicated that this lack of optimization results in roughly a 10% slow down compared to an optimized grid.

Installation

Building the plugin requires the Poinwise Plugin SDK. The plugin also requres HDF5, it was tested with version 1.12.2, but other versions may work as well.

The SDK must first be used to create a plugin project for Loci/CHEM. See here for more details, but in general plugin creation from the PluginSDK directory should look like below:

./mkplugin -caeu -cpp LociChem

Next the source code from this repository must be integrated with the plugin code generated by the SDK in the src/plugins/CaeUnsLociChem directory. See here for more information. The make files generated by the SDK will likely have to be edited to include the path to HDF5's include and lib directories. The plugin should be linked against the following HDF5 libraries libhdf5, libz, libszaec, and libaec.

Finally, the plugin must be built and the resulting library placed in the PWI_PLUGINS_SEARCH_PATH. See here for more information.

Updating to a new SDK

To update the plugin to a new SDK, which is occasionally required to support the latest versions of Pointwise, follow these instructions for Windows.

• Extract the new SDK
• Update PluginSDK/src/plugins/site.h with group name and ID.
• Copy CaeUnsLociChem folder into PLuginSDK/src/plugins/
• Open Visual Studio sln file in PluginSDK directory
• Right click on Plugins in source tree, select Add, select Existing Project
• Pick vcxproj file inside PLuginSDK/src/plugins/CaeUnsLociChem
• To upgrade version of Visual Studio, right click on imported plugin name, select Retarget