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Teresa,<br>
<br>
There are two tricks here. The one is, if you are writing binary files
from Fluent, in Paraview you have to read them in as "little-endian"
(or at least that works on my Linux workstation). Alternatively, if
you are writing ASCII ensight files, you have to strip out the leading
spaces from the lines in the individual data files containing character
strings. The leading spaces work OK with Ensight, but Paraview won't
accept them.<br>
<br>
Charles<br>
<br>
<br>
Palmer, Teresa wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi,</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I’m still
having problems loading
the Ensight files. From the Fluent manual this is what it says about
exporting the Ensight data files:</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">EnSight Case Gold </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">There are four files: </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A geometry file (e.g.,
file.geo)
containing the coordinates and connectivity information. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A velocity file (e.g.,
file.vel)
containing the velocity. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A scalar file (e.g.,
file.scl1) for
each selected variable or function. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">An EnSight case file
(e.g.,
file.encas) that contains details about the other exported files. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">You can specify the file
Format as
Binary or ASCII. The advantage of the binary format is that it takes
less time
to load the exported files into EnSight. You can specify the scalars
you want
in the Functions to Write list. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">file/export/ensight-gold
file-name
list-of-scalars q yes|no </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">These are
the exact four files with the
same extensions that I have. I have now managed to load the .encas file
but
when I load the other files nothing displays. When I click on
Information they
all say: Type – unknown, 0 bytes, 0 points, 0 cells.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Any ideas?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks,</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Teresa</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Amy Squillacote
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:amy.squillacote@kitware.com">mailto:amy.squillacote@kitware.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday,
August 17, 2005
12:52 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Palmer, Teresa<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: RES:
[Paraview]
Problems reading Ensight files</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Let's keep this on the ParaView mailing list.<br>
<br>
Are you saying that when you load the .encas file the entire data set
loads
properly or that there are no errors in the .encas file itself? To
open
an EnSight data set, ParaView expects you to load a case file (an ASCII
file
that points to geometry and variable files), so if you try to load
geometry
(.geo) or variable (.vel and .scl1, in your data set) files directly
instead of
loading a case file, I would not expect ParaView to know what to do.
Also
ParaView may have trouble with the .encas file extension (assuming this
is your
case file) since it expects EnSight case files to have the extension
.case.<br>
<br>
- Amy<br>
<br>
At 02:04 PM 8/17/2005, Palmer, Teresa wrote:<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Hi Amy,<br>
<br>
I have an .encas file which has loaded fine but it’s the .vel .geo
.scl1
files which cause it to crash. I have looked the Ensight website which
talks about exporting the files from Fluent <br>
<a href="http://www.ensight.com/FAQ/faq.0019.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.ensight.com/FAQ/faq.0019.html</a><br>
and it seems like the files are exported with these extensions,<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Jane<br>
</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Amy Squillacote [<a
href="mailto:amy.squillacote@kitware.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:amy.squillacote@kitware.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August
16, 2005
6:33 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Renato N. Elias;
Palmer,
Teresa<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: RES:
[Paraview]
Problems reading Ensight files<br>
</span></font> <br>
Hi Teresa,<br>
<br>
Is your <font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel
file an EnSight case file? They usually have the file extension
.case. If you have a file with the .case extension for this data set,
try
loading it instead of the .vel one.<br>
<br>
</span></font>- Amy<br>
<br>
At 07:24 PM 8/15/2005, Renato N. Elias wrote:<br>
<br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">Ok,<br>
</span></font> <br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">Are you
trying to read Binary or ASCII data? Were your data files written by
Fortran or
C language?<br>
</span></font> <br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">Renato.</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">De:</span></font></b><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Palmer, Teresa [
<a href="mailto:Teresa_Palmer@nrel.gov" eudora="autourl">mailto:Teresa_Palmer@nrel.gov</a>]
<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviada em:</span></b>
segunda-feira, 15 de
agosto de 2005 20:16<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> Renato N. Elias<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> RE:
[Paraview] Problems
reading Ensight files<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="navy" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">It still
crashed,<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="navy" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Thanks<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="navy" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Teresa<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="navy" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Renato N. Elias
[ <a href="mailto:rnelias@nacad.ufrj.br" eudora="autourl">mailto:rnelias@nacad.ufrj.br</a>]
<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August
15, 2005 4:23
PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Palmer, Teresa<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RES:
[Paraview] Problems
reading Ensight files<br>
</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">Hello Teresa,<br>
</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">First of all,
try to set up the byte order to "little endian" <br>
</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">cheers<br>
</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">Renato N.
Elias<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">NACAD/COPPE/UFRJ<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">Rio de
Janeiro, Brasil<br>
</span></font><br>
<font color="blue" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;"><a
href="http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/%7Ernelias" eudora="autourl">http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">De:</span></font></b><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br@paraview.org">paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br@paraview.org</a> [ <a
href="mailto:paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br@paraview.org"
eudora="autourl">mailto:paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br@paraview.org</a>]
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Em nome de </span></b>Palmer,
Teresa<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviada em:</span></b>
segunda-feira, 15 de
agosto de 2005 19:17<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> [Paraview]
Problems
reading Ensight files<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi,<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am totally new to
ParaView and
have been given some files in Ensight Case Gold Format to read.
However,
everytime I load up the files and then press Accept the program
exits/crashes. The trace script reads as follows.<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Any ideas – I will do
the
tutorials though in case this is some novice error on my part,<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$kw(vtkTemp5)
ReadFileInformation
$kw(vtkTemp916) "G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel"<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$kw(vtkTemp5)
FinalizeRead
$kw(vtkTemp916) "G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel"<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">set kw(vtkTemp938)
[$kw(vtkTemp916)
GetPVWidget {Filename}]<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$kw(vtkTemp938)
SetValue
"G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel"<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">set kw(vtkTemp923)
[$kw(vtkTemp916)
GetPVWidget {ByteOrder}]<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$kw(vtkTemp923)
SetCurrentValue {0}<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">set kw(vtkTemp933)
[$kw(vtkTemp916)
GetPVWidget {PointArrays}]<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">set kw(vtkTemp937)
[$kw(vtkTemp916)
GetPVWidget {CellArrays}]<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"># Error or warning:<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"># There was a VTK Error
in file:
\martink\ParaView14\Servers\Filters\vtkPVEnSightMasterServerReader.cxx
(225)<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"># Error reading case
file on
at least one node.<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">#<br>
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