<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>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.<br></div>I downloaded and installed the following version: ParaView-5.0.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit.exe<br></div>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:<br><br>ERROR: In C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader.cxx, line 114
<br>vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): stat failed.
<br> <br> <br>ERROR: In C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader.cxx, line 220
<br>vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): Unable to open file: D:\Storage\Media\Work\Gradirni\CFX\EnSight\C-G002L3S-R020-S000-14.5\/C-G002L3S-R020-S000.geom
<br> <br> <br>ERROR: In C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightReader.cxx, line 306
<br>vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): error reading geometry file
<br> <br> <br>ERROR: In C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\Common\ExecutionModel\vtkExecutive.cxx, line 784
<br>vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0000000008E1A640): Algorithm vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader(0000000009451230) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (00000000093C3920)
<br> Debug: Off
<br> Modified Time: 214873
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<br> Registered Events: (none)
<br> Request: REQUEST_DATA
<br> ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
<br> FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
<br> FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0<br><br></div>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%.<br><br></div><div>Both ParaView 5.0.0 and 4.3 was tested with EnSight files exported on Linux and Windows machine. It didn't help.<br></div><div><br></div>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".<br><br></div><div>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).<br></div><div><br></div>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.<br><br></div>Thanks for your attention.<br></div>