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FoamX at start-up will look through through a predefined set of directories to find directories with a FoamX subdirectory. These directories are taken to be utilities or solvers which need to be added to FoamX. 
For solvers it looks through directories
* <tt>$WM_PROJECT_DIR</tt>/applications/solvers
* <tt>$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR</tt>/applications/solvers,

for utilities it looks through directories
* <tt>$WM_PROJECT_DIR</tt>/applications/utilities
* <tt>$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR</tt>/applications/utilities.

The easiest way is to copy the <tt>FoamX</tt> directory of an existing solver/utility and rename the top <tt>.cfg</tt> file to your solver. Make sure that the 
* directory name
* top level solver name
* .cfg file in the FoamX directory
are all consistent.

For example, if your application is similar to icoFoam, take 

<tt>$WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/solvers/incompressible/icoFoam/FoamX</tt>

and copy it to

<tt>$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR/applications/solvers/myFoam</tt>

where <tt>myFoam</tt> is the name of your new solver and move

<tt>FoamX/icoFoam.cfg</tt>

to

<tt>FoamX/myFoam.cfg</tt>

Adapt the configuration file and the dictionaries to your needs and change <tt>/Make/files</tt> to match your application name.

Create a case (right click on the root directory in the case browser) and you will have <tt>myFoam</tt> to choose from.