ENH: mergeOrSplitBaffles - remove boundaries with zero faces after merging

Add an option (or do automatically) in mergeOrSplitBaffles to remove boundaries with zero faces from the boundary file after merging. Prevents the need to run createPatch after merging.

Also, as an aside, mergeOrSplitBaffles.C says in its header that there is a -merge command line option, but it does not exist. However, there is a -split option. Can this be made consistent?

changed title from Feature Request : mergeOrSplitBaffles - remove boundaries with zero faces after merging to ENH: mergeOrSplitBaffles - remove boundaries with zero faces after merging

Below are all the utilities that do something with faces (so can generate zero-sized patches):

Already have some handling of patches:

• redistributePar : removes unused processor directories
• reconstructParMesh : removes unused processor directories
• snappyHexMesh: removes zero-sized patches
• createPatch: removes zero-sized patches
• createBaffles: removes zero-sized patches

No special support for handling of patches:

• stitchMesh:
• splitMesh:
• attachMesh:
• subsetMesh:
• mergeOrSplitBaffles:
• removeFaces:

mentioned in commit 56bdb6c4

closed

Was this enhancement request rejected by the developers, or is it too big of a task that it will require funding? I thought it was a valid enhancement request that would improve the overall consistency and usability of OpenFOAM, and Mattijs appeared to confirm the inconsistency in his comment.

reopened

Hi @graups, my apologies, it was my mistake closing the ticket.