<div dir="ltr">Hi Zach,<br><br>I had a similar issue recently. I can't seem to download the file (it's giving a 403 server error that I don't have permission to download).  The kitware team found that the Paraview Tecplot reader would get into an infinite loop if it had trouble reading some of the header information. In my case it was a line that contained 'f=point c=black' which was causing the issue.<br><br>The issue was resolved but the fix isn't in the current version. See the Gitlab issue: <a href="https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293">https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Zach Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zdavis@pointwise.com" target="_blank">zdavis@pointwise.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Tuesday, 11 April 2017<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>I’m encountering a problem in which ParaVIew seems to freeze when attempting to load a Tecplot *.dat file.  An example of a compressed *.dat file that’s causing this issue can be downloaded <a href="https://pointwiseenterprise.sharefile.com/d-s9ba1e31b97d404c9" target="_blank">here</a> (~4.4MB).  I’m using ParaVIew 5.3.0-219-g24f5a44 under macOS 10.12.4.  Note, the file fails to load under ParaView version 4.4 as well.  I’ve compressed the *.dat file with gzip for transmission—please unzip it prior to attempting to reproduce the problem in ParaView.  Uncompressed it's a 16MB file, and shouldn’t take very long to load…  Any ideas what might be the issue?  Is there a problem with the file’s format, or is ParaView the culprit?</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><br><br><div>
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