[Paraview] ParaView 5.0.0 for Windows x64 fails to open EnSight Gold files

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Adnrew,

Do you have a sample dataset to share to reproduce this issue?

Thanks
Utkarsh

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Andrew <antech777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. We use Ansys CFX in our work but the standard post-processor CFD-Post
> consumes one of Ansys licenses while Paraview is free. So I often make
> pictures for reports with ParaView to preserve Ansys license for another
> users/needs (because other users are not familiar with ParaView and CFD-Post
> may consume general "acfd" license feature that may be used for
> calculations). I convert CFX results to EnSight Gold format in CFX Solver
> Manager (Export Results) and then open in ParaView. It was working well on
> Linux (CentOS 6.7 x64, Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with updates) but now I work with
> large files and I need to use another machine that has 128 GB of RAM and
> runs Windows-7 x64.
> I downloaded and installed the following version:
> ParaView-5.0.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit.exe
> When I open my EnSight-format file I receive the error message that geometry
> file cannot be read. I tried to move EnSight files to a simple location
> (D:\Temp) and renamed them (test.case, test.geom + edited the case to change
> geometry file name to "simple" one). The same result, it cannot find
> geometry file... Full error message is as follows:
>
> ERROR: In
> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader.cxx,
> line 114
> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): stat failed.
>
>
> ERROR: In
> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader.cxx,
> line 220
> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): Unable to open file:
> D:\Storage\Media\Work\Gradirni\CFX\EnSight\C-G002L3S-R020-S000-14.5\/C-G002L3S-R020-S000.geom
>
>
> ERROR: In
> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightReader.cxx, line
> 306
> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): error reading geometry file
>
>
> ERROR: In
> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\Common\ExecutionModel\vtkExecutive.cxx,
> line 784
> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0000000008E1A640): Algorithm
> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader(0000000009451230) returned failure for request:
> vtkInformation (00000000093C3920)
>   Debug: Off
>   Modified Time: 214873
>   Reference Count: 1
>   Registered Events: (none)
>   Request: REQUEST_DATA
>   ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>   FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>   FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>
> OK, I tried to open it in ParaView 4.3. It says nothing (only border of the
> message window appears) and crashes. At that moment I see in the status bar
> that EnSight reader progress is 100%.
>
> Both ParaView 5.0.0 and 4.3 was tested with EnSight files exported on Linux
> and Windows machine. It didn't help.
>
> OK, I tried to export CFX results to CGNS format. ParaView 5.0.0 (without
> MPI) cannot read it, so I fed it to ParaView 4.3. It says that its "unable
> to filed any meshes".
>
> I also performed an experiment on my Linux laptop. It has only 16 GB of RAM
> so its unreal to work with such a big file on this machine but it reads the
> same EnSight case and displays the domain! No arrays selected (mesh only),
> swap file grows up to 8 GB but the file opens without errors and crashes.
> It's only a test because I have not any Linux machine with memory large
> enough (our Linux cluster has 128 GB of RAM on every node including master
> but it has very poor video).
>
> I switched to CFD Post for this case but I want to know are there any
> workarounds to open my EnSight-format results in ParaView for Windows.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
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