.TH "SURFACEMESHTRIANGULATE" 1 "OpenFOAM-1812" "www.openfoam.com" "OpenFOAM Commands Manual"
.SH "NAME"
surfaceMeshTriangulate \- part of \fBOpenFOAM\fR (The Open Source CFD Toolbox).
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBsurfaceMeshTriangulate\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fIoutput\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.nf
Extract patch or faceZone surfaces from a polyMesh. The name is historical, it
only triangulates faces when the output format requires it.
.fi
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.TP
\fIoutput\fR
The output surface file
.SH "OPTIONS"
.TP
\fB\-case\fR \fIdir\fR
Specify case directory to use (instead of the cwd)
.TP
\fB\-constant\fR
Include the 'constant/' dir in the times list
.TP
\fB\-decomposeParDict\fR \fIfile\fR
Use specified file for decomposePar dictionary
.TP
\fB\-excludeProcPatches\fR
Exclude processor patches
.TP
\fB\-faceZones\fR \fIwordRes\fR
Specify single or multiple faceZones to extract
Eg, 'cells' or '( slice "mfp-.*" )'
.TP
\fB\-latestTime\fR
Select the latest time
.TP
\fB\-noFunctionObjects\fR
Do not execute function objects
.TP
\fB\-noZero\fR
Exclude the '0/' dir from the times list
.TP
\fB\-parallel\fR
Run in parallel
\fB[Parallel option]\fR
.TP
\fB\-patches\fR \fIwordResSpecify single patch or multiple patches to extract.
Eg, 'top' or '( front ".*back" )'\fR

.TP
\fB\-region\fR \fIname\fR
Specify alternative mesh region
.TP
\fB\-time\fR \fIranges\fR
List of ranges. Eg, ':10,20 40:70 1000:', 'none', etc
.TP
\fB\-doc\fR
Display documentation in browser
.TP
\fB\-doc-source\fR
Display source code in browser
.TP
\fB\-help\fR
Display short help and exit
.TP
\fB\-help-full\fR
Display full help and exit
.SS "ADVANCED OPTIONS"
.TP
\fB\-fileHandler\fR \fIhandler\fR
Override the file handler type
.TP
\fB\-hostRoots\fR \fI(((host1 dir1) .. (hostN dirN))\fR
slave root directories (per host) for distributed running. The host
specification can use a regex.
\fB[Parallel option]\fR
.TP
\fB\-roots\fR \fI(dir1 .. dirN)\fR
Slave root directories for distributed running
\fB[Parallel option]\fR
.TP
\fB\-help-man\fR
Display full help (manpage format) and exit
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Online documentation https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2018 OpenCFD Ltd.