Main OtherSoftware

In addition to the officially supported tools (especially paraFoam) there is a number of other software that make life with OpenFOAM easier.

1 Pre-Processors

For people who need a bit more complicated grids (of course you can always do it with blockMesh.

Very good overview of free and commercial mesh generators.

1.1 NETGEN

Netgen is an automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator.

It accepts input from STL, IGES and STEP file format (CAD).

2 Post-Processors

Looking at your results in many colorful ways.

2.1 OpenDX

The mighty OpenDX is for those who think that Paraview is too simple (and not powerful enough).