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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In order to nicely visualize a dynamic 3D model I want to use ParaView in combination which EnsightGold (*.case) files. My tetrahedral FE model has a static geometry and only one variable of the elements (scalar per element) is changing
over time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To this end I created three files: (1) example.case, (2) example.geo, (3) example.sigma. The latter is holding all timesteps of the dynamic variable (in my case the conductivity).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Furthermore, I’ve verified these files using the ens_checker application which concludes with a positive “Hooray! Data format verification SUCCESSFUL with No Warnings”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, if I load the casefile in ParaView only the first timestep can be visualized. As soon as I change the time to another timestep ParaView freezes (no more reaction and consumes 100% of CPU).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible that what I want to do using the EnsightGold files is not supported by ParaView?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What else would you suggest me to resolve this problem?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much for your help in advance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<br>
Fab<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS: I am using ParaView 4.3.1 on a Win 7 64-bit machine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PS2: A hint which might be useful for others looking for the ens_checker application: I simply downloaded the current trial version of Ensight, opened the executable of the setup in an archive manager (e.g. 7-zip), located and extracted
the ens_checker.exe.<o:p></o:p></p>
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