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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Christopher Neal <<a href="mailto:chrisneal@snumerics.com" class="">chrisneal@snumerics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">That link doesn't seem to work either :(<br class=""><br class="">For me, those terms were apparently out of date with what the reader was expecting. And so when it hit those tokens it just froze instead of jumping out and throwing an error. It's possible that you have other tokens(i.e. options) that are setting this off. It could also be something else, but the scenario is very close to what I was dealing with. Is the program that is writing the Tecplot file up-to-date with the newest Tecplot file format?</div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Zach Davis<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:zdavis@pointwise.com" target="_blank" class="">zdavis@pointwise.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi Christopher,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for you input. Apologies if the link wasn’t working for you. At least one person on the mailing list was able to download a copy successfully. I don’t know if this will help, but you might try seeing if the following link works any better:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://pointwiseenterprise.sharefile.com/d-sd1c1d4e9eeb450e8" target="_blank" class="">https://pointwiseenterprise.<wbr class="">sharefile.com/d-<wbr class="">sd1c1d4e9eeb450e8</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did a preliminary search for the terms “f=point” and “c=black” in my text editor. It doesn’t seem to have found either entries; though, it does appear it’s stuck in a loop of some sort.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><div class=""><table cellpadding="3" border="0" style="margin-top: 40px; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="65" valign="top" class=""><img src="http://www.pointwise.com/images/Pointwise_Globe_CMYK.png" alt="Pointwise, Inc." height="100" class=""></td><td align="left" valign="top" class=""><div style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: black; padding-left: 7px;" class=""><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;" class="">Zach Davis</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10px;" class="">Pointwise®, Inc.<br class="">Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing<br class="">213 South Jennings Avenue<br class="">Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107<br class=""><br class=""><strong class="">E</strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:zach.davis@pointwise.com" target="_blank" class="">zach.davis@pointwise.com</a><br class=""><strong class="">P</strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:(817)%20377-2807" value="+18173772807" target="_blank" class="">(817) 377-2807 x1202</a><br class=""><strong class="">F</strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:(817)%20377-2799" value="+18173772799" target="_blank" class="">(817) 377-2799</a></span><br class=""><div style="display: inline-block; margin-top: 5px;" class=""><a href="https://www.twitter.com/RcktMan78" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><img src="http://www.pointwise.com/images/twitter-circle-icon.png" style="width: 25px;" class=""></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/cfdmeshing" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><img src="http://www.pointwise.com/images/youtube-circle-icon.png" style="width: 25px;" class=""></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pointwise" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><img src="http://www.pointwise.com/images/facebook-circle-icon.png" style="width: 25px;" class=""></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.github.com/pointwise" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><img src="http://www.pointwise.com/images/github-circle-icon.png" style="width: 25px;" class=""></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br class=""></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Christopher Neal <<a href="mailto:chrisneal@snumerics.com" target="_blank" class="">chrisneal@snumerics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_466324638520463592Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Zach,<br class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">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" target="_blank" class="">https://gitlab.kitware.<wbr class="">com/paraview/paraview/issues/<wbr class="">17293</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Zach Davis<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:zdavis@pointwise.com" target="_blank" class="">zdavis@pointwise.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class="">Tuesday, 11 April 2017<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><table cellpadding="3" border="0" style="margin-top: 40px; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="65" valign="top" class=""><img src="http://www.pointwise.com/images/Pointwise_Globe_CMYK.png" alt="Pointwise, Inc." height="100" class=""></td><td align="left" valign="top" class=""><div style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: black; padding-left: 7px;" class=""><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;" class="">Zach Davis</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10px;" class="">Pointwise®, Inc.<br class="">Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing<br class="">213 South Jennings Avenue<br class="">Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107<br class=""><br class=""><strong class="">E</strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:zach.davis@pointwise.com" target="_blank" class="">zach.davis@pointwise.com</a><br class=""><strong class="">P</strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:(817)%20377-2807" value="+18173772807" target="_blank" class="">(817) 377-2807 x1202</a><br class=""><strong class="">F</strong>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:(817)%20377-2799" value="+18173772799" target="_blank" class="">(817) 377-2799</a></span><br class=""><div style="display: inline-block; 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