<div dir="ltr"><div>Another "experimental data". I was able to load this big case in ParaView viat the CGNS format. It was neccesary to select CGNS 3.0 and HDF5 options in CFX Converter. But when I apply the Extract Block filter I see no any boundaries, only fluid domain (that is displayed OK). So CGNS format is not a wayout...<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-29 9:00 GMT+03:00 Andrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antech777@gmail.com" target="_blank">antech777@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I performed another test with <b>EnSight 6</b> (not Gold) format. Conversion was made on Win-7 x64 machine. The same results: PV 4.3 crashed, PV 5.0 "cannot stat" (full error message is in my first post on this topic). Sorry, now I need to work on with my report...<div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-29 8:47 GMT+03:00 Andrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antech777@gmail.com" target="_blank">antech777@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello. Sorry for silence, I'm usually offline on holydays, although I have internet connection and read your mail.<br><br><h3><span name="Samuel Key">Samuel Key</span></h3><p>Thanks for your attention.</p><p>About transferring files from Linux to Windows. I use binary EnSight files because CFX converter fails to write so large files in ASCII format. But I tried to convert from CFX to EnSight (binary) on the same Win-7 x64 machine with ParaView. Both installed versions (4.3 and 5.0) failed to open the geometry (I unchecked all fields). ParaView 4.3 crashed, ParaView 5.0 just cannot open file...</p><p>I think that the root cause may be a geometry file size. It is 4.9 GiB (5.3 GB), mesh have about 150 millions of cells, not 600 thusands like in your case. Its possible that ParaView for Windows cannot process so large EnSight files, although the Linux version reads in this geometry and displays outline (swapping is so intensive so I cannot displaye something else).<br></p><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-26 19:31 GMT+03:00 Samuel Key <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuelkey@bresnan.net" target="_blank">samuelkey@bresnan.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<tt>Andrew,<br>
<br>
For what it is worth, I use ParaView
(ParaView-5.0.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit) on Windows-7 64bit. I
just now tested two medium-sized, EnSight Gold-formatted
simulation results files (600,000 finite elements) and both
worked.<br>
<br>
In the past, I have had difficulty with the EnSight
ASCII-formatted *.case file when moving the simulation results
(*.case file and friends) from MS Windows to EnSight running on a
linux platform. It was necessary to pass the ASCII *.case file
through a 'dos2unix' filter. Transferring files the other way
might have the same problem???<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Samuel Key<br>
FMA Development, LLC<br>
1005 39th Ave NE<br>
Great Falls, Montana 59404<br>
USA<br>
</font></span></tt><div><div><br>
<div>On 2/25/2016 11:26 PM, Andrew wrote:<br>
</div>
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>
<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
<br>
Reference Count: 1
<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>
<br>
<fieldset></fieldset>
<br>
</div></div><span><pre>_______________________________________________
Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a>
Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a>
Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView" target="_blank">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</a>
Search the list archives at: <a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView" target="_blank">http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</a>
Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a>
</pre>
</span></blockquote>
<br>
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.kitware.com</a><br>
<br>
Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br>
<br>
Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</a><br>
<br>
Search the list archives at: <a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</a><br>
<br>
Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>