Back to Upgrade Guides

Coordinate systems

As described in the release notes, coordinate systems received a significant overhaul. The potential code-breaking points are listed here.

Cylindrical coordinate systems are now radians only.

The base-level rotation tensor and the transform/invTransform methods are now directly located in the coordinate system.

Old code:

tensor rot = cs.R().R();
cs.R().transform(...);

New code:

tensor rot = cs.R();
cs.transform(...);

Some naming inconsistencies were eliminated in the coordinate systems

• transformVector() becomes transformPrincipal()

• transformTensor() is now simply transform()

The new methods transformPoint/invTransformPoint provide transformations with an origin offset using Cartesian for both local and global points. These can be used to determine the local position based on the origin/rotation without interpreting it as a r-theta-z value, for example.

Coordinate system namespaces

For better code isolation, dedicated Foam::coordSystem and Foam::coordinateRotations namespaces have been introduced. For convenience and compatibility with older code, typedefs are also provided. For example,

//- Compatibility typedef 1806
typedef coordSystem::cartesian cartesianCS;

//- Compatibility typedef 1806
typedef coordinateRotations::euler EulerCoordinateRotation;