<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Zach,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It looks like you are facing a similar issue to the one that Christopher reported earlier here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293" class="">https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In that particular case the file he was trying to read was an older version of the Tecplot file format and the Paraview Tecplot reader did not know what to do with the header information in the file. As Cory mentioned a recent change to ParaView which is not in the 5.3 release fixed the freeze but currently ParaView does not support the older Tecplot format. Based on the error that Cory is reported the Tecplot reader is still expecting to find header information even though it is now reading the section of the file where the data resides. I can’t say for sure but I suspect your file may also be an older version of the Tecplot file format which is currently not supported by the ParaView Tecplot reader.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chet</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com" class="">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Zach,<br class=""><br class="">With recent changes to ParaView (March 15, 2017), I was able to "open"<br class="">the file in the most recent development version of ParaView without<br class="">getting stuck in an infinite loop, but I did get the following<br class="">warnings:<br class=""><br class="">Warning: In /Users/cory.quammen/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkTecplotReader.cxx,<br class="">line 1795<br class="">vtkTecplotReader (0x1350d2c00):<br class="">/Users/cory.quammen/Desktop/oneram6-prism_tec_boundary.dat; Tecplot<br class="">zone record parameter 'SOLUTIONTIME' is currently unsupported.<br class="">Warning: In /Users/cory.quammen/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkTecplotReader.cxx,<br class="">line 1789<br class="">vtkTecplotReader (0x1350d2c00):<br class="">/Users/cory.quammen/Desktop/oneram6-prism_tec_boundary.dat; Tecplot<br class="">zone record parameter 'STRANDID' is currently unsupported.<br class="">ERROR: In /Users/cory.quammen/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkTecplotReader.cxx,<br class="">line 1902<br class="">vtkTecplotReader (0x1350d2c00):<br class="">/Users/cory.quammen/Desktop/oneram6-prism_tec_boundary.dat: The record<br class="">type 0.317283460316E+02 found in the file is unknown.<br class=""><br class="">The read fails, but hopefully this tells you what is going on.<br class=""><br class="">HTH,<br class="">Cory<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Zach Davis <<a href="mailto:zdavis@pointwise.com" class="">zdavis@pointwise.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Christopher,<br class=""><br class="">Sorry, about the link. I would attach the file here, but it exceeds the<br class="">mailing list’s size limits. The solver I’m using is probably using an older<br class="">version of the TecIO library, since changes to the Tecplot file format have<br class="">been changing pretty frequently in recent years… Hopefully someone else who<br class="">can download the file can help identify which token(s), if any, are causing<br class="">a problem.<br class=""><br class="">Best Regards,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Zach Davis<br 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="">E: <a href="mailto:zach.davis@pointwise.com" class="">zach.davis@pointwise.com</a><br class="">P: (817) 377-2807 x1202<br class="">F: (817) 377-2799<br class=""><br class="">On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Christopher Neal <<a href="mailto:chrisneal@snumerics.com" class="">chrisneal@snumerics.com</a>><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br 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<br class="">expecting. And so when it hit those tokens it just froze instead of jumping<br class="">out and throwing an error. It's possible that you have other tokens(i.e.<br class="">options) that are setting this off. It could also be something else, but<br class="">the scenario is very close to what I was dealing with. Is the program that<br class="">is writing the Tecplot file up-to-date with the newest Tecplot file format?<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Zach Davis <<a href="mailto:zdavis@pointwise.com" class="">zdavis@pointwise.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hi Christopher,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for you input. Apologies if the link wasn’t working for you. At<br class="">least one person on the mailing list was able to download a copy<br class="">successfully. I don’t know if this will help, but you might try seeing if<br class="">the following link works any better:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://pointwiseenterprise.sharefile.com/d-sd1c1d4e9eeb450e8" class="">https://pointwiseenterprise.sharefile.com/d-sd1c1d4e9eeb450e8</a><br class=""><br class="">I did a preliminary search for the terms “f=point” and “c=black” in my<br class="">text editor. It doesn’t seem to have found either entries; though, it does<br class="">appear it’s stuck in a loop of some sort.<br class=""><br class="">Best Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Zach Davis<br 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="">E: zach.davis@pointwise.com<br class="">P: (817) 377-2807 x1202<br class="">F: (817) 377-2799<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Christopher Neal <chrisneal@snumerics.com><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Zach,<br class=""><br class="">I had a similar issue recently. I can't seem to download the file (it's<br class="">giving a 403 server error that I don't have permission to download). The<br class="">kitware team found that the Paraview Tecplot reader would get into an<br class="">infinite loop if it had trouble reading some of the header information. In<br class="">my case it was a line that contained 'f=point c=black' which was causing the<br class="">issue.<br class=""><br class="">The issue was resolved but the fix isn't in the current version. See the<br class="">Gitlab issue: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Zach Davis <zdavis@pointwise.com> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Tuesday, 11 April 2017<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">All,<br class=""><br class="">I’m encountering a problem in which ParaVIew seems to freeze when<br class="">attempting to load a Tecplot *.dat file. An example of a compressed *.dat<br class="">file that’s causing this issue can be downloaded here (~4.4MB). I’m using<br class="">ParaVIew 5.3.0-219-g24f5a44 under macOS 10.12.4. Note, the file fails to<br class="">load under ParaView version 4.4 as well. I’ve compressed the *.dat file<br class="">with gzip for transmission—please unzip it prior to attempting to reproduce<br class="">the problem in ParaView. Uncompressed it's a 16MB file, and shouldn’t take<br class="">very long to load… Any ideas what might be the issue? Is there a problem<br class="">with the file’s format, or is ParaView the culprit?<br class=""><br class="">Best Regards,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Zach Davis<br 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="">E: zach.davis@pointwise.com<br class="">P: (817) 377-2807 x1202<br class="">F: (817) 377-2799<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Powered by www.kitware.com<br class=""><br class="">Visit other Kitware open-source projects at<br class="">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html<br class=""><br class="">Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at:<br class="">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView<br class=""><br class="">Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView<br class=""><br class="">Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br class="">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Christopher Neal<br class="">Research Engineer<br class="">Streamline Numerics, Inc.<br class="">https://www.snumerics.com/<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Christopher Neal<br class="">Research Engineer<br class="">Streamline Numerics, Inc.<br class=""><a href="https://www.snumerics.com/" class="">https://www.snumerics.com/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Powered by www.kitware.com<br class=""><br class="">Visit other Kitware open-source projects at<br class="">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html<br class=""><br class="">Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at:<br class="">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView<br class=""><br class="">Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView<br class=""><br class="">Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br class="">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Cory Quammen<br class="">Staff R&D Engineer<br class="">Kitware, Inc.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com" class="">www.kitware.com</a><br class=""><br class="">Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html" class="">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView" class="">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</a><br class=""><br class="">Search the list archives at: <a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView" class="">http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</a><br class=""><br class="">Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:<br class=""><a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview" class="">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>