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Inspect any Eddy3D case: Outdoor wind study, Indoor case, or OutdoorPlus (UMF) case.

Reference an existing wind case folder (mesh/ + case_NNN) for post-processing.

Sample fields at points on a solved case, post-hoc. With Run it writes a probes function and runs postProcess on the requested Time (latest by default), then reads the results; without Run it reads existing results. Works on a wind case (one sub-result per direction) or a loaded case.

Extract solver-side streamlines from a solved case with OpenFOAM's streamlines function object (particles tracked through the actual mesh — accurate in refined near-building cells, unlike tracing a probed field). With Run it writes the function-object dict and runs postProcess on the requested Time, then reads the tracks; without Run it reads existing tracks.

Export probed facade pressure coefficients into the EnergyPlus AirflowNetwork as an .idf snippet: WindPressureCoefficientArray (the simulated directions), per-node WindPressureCoefficientValues and ExternalNode objects, ready to paste/merge into a Ladybug Tools (or hand-built) AirflowNetwork model. Enable Pressure Coefficient in Run Settings, probe the Cp field at facade points, and wire the probe tree here.

Probe-specific statistics, per-hour values, a colored probe mesh and an inline legend from an annual wind field or Annual VAF object, without putting the full 8760-hour year on the canvas.

Compute volumetric flow rates (m³/s) across a mesh, treating its vertices as velocity probes. Per face: average vertex velocities × face area × cos(angle to face normal).

Compute Velocity Amplification Factors (VAF) and annual wind speed at probes from CFD or ML wind-prediction results and EPW weather data. VAF (the term used in the wind-engineering literature for what Eddy3D historically called "wind factors") is the local wind speed normalized by the reference speed.

Create a visualization mesh from polyMesh point/face data. OutdoorPlus

Remove ground mesh faces that intersect buildings, creating an analysis ground mesh with building footprints cut out.

Create a metric-aware color legend and an optional colored mesh from point/value samples. Supports wind, solar, sun-hours, temperature and other environmental data.

Read cell connectivity and cell zones for a region. OutdoorPlus

Visualize a probed scalar field — CO2, temperature, age of air, Cp, pressure — as a colored point cloud, a heatmap mesh, or a translucent volumetric cloud. Feed the Probe component's points and one value per point. For velocity, use the Vector Field Viewer.

Visualize a probed vector field: colored velocity arrows, a point cloud, a heatmap mesh, streamlines, or volumetric smoke (pick via Display Mode). Feed the Probe component's points + velocity vectors (Field = U), or any points + vectors. For a field without direction — CO2, temperature, age of air, Cp — use the Scalar Field Viewer.

Export an OBJ mesh from a polyMesh description. OutdoorPlus

Write probed wind results as a CSV for the Eddy3D Visualizer (https://viz.eddy3d.com/): columns X, Y, Z_relative, U_at_z, mag_U, U_x, U_y, U_z — one row per probe point. Upload the file at https://viz.eddy3d.com/ to view the 3D field, coloured by velocity magnitude, with the vector components powering the viewer's particle-flow overlay.

Open a wind case's direction cases in ParaView. All directions are added to the ParaView pipeline browser; click Apply on the ones you want to load (nothing is loaded automatically).

Run the OpenFOAM checkMesh command for a case region. OutdoorPlus

Visualize faces that fail tet decomposition during topoSet. OutdoorPlus

Draws a wind case's residual convergence directly on the Grasshopper canvas, with lightweight timed updates. Wire the case and toggle 'Live' to monitor a running simulation without an external plotter window. When a warm-up ramp is enabled the solver restarts mid-run and writes a separate residual file per phase; all phases are stitched into one continuous curve so you see the full history (warm-up + main), not just the latest phase.

Monitor blockMesh, surfaceFeatures, and snappyHexMesh progress from the mesh case logs.

Parses log files in a case folder and reports any FOAM errors. OutdoorPlus

Open the web-based residual plotter for a wind case's convergence history (one trace per direction).

Read and visualize sets produced by checkMesh. OutdoorPlus

Generate a Markdown report documenting the wind case to the QA discipline of the ASCE/SEI CWE Prestandard (within its steady-RANS pedestrian-comfort allowance): solver and OpenFOAM version, domain and blockage, boundary conditions, numerics and the 2nd-order verdict, mesh quality, convergence, y+, Reynolds, an optional comfort section, limitations, and a compliance summary table.