FW: RES: [Paraview] Problems reading Ensight files

Wed Aug 17 16:58:12 EDT 2005

Hi,

I'm still having problems loading the Ensight files.  From the Fluent
manual this is what it says about exporting the Ensight data files:

EnSight Case Gold 

There are four files: 

A geometry file (e.g., file.geo) containing the coordinates and
connectivity information. 

A velocity file (e.g., file.vel) containing the velocity. 

A scalar file (e.g., file.scl1) for each selected variable or function. 

An EnSight case file (e.g., file.encas) that contains details about the
other exported files. 

You can specify the file Format as Binary or ASCII. The advantage of the
binary format is that it takes less time to load the exported files into
EnSight. You can specify the scalars you want in the Functions to Write
list. 

file/export/ensight-gold file-name list-of-scalars q yes|no 

These are the exact four files with the same extensions that I have. I
have now managed to load the .encas file but when I load the other files
nothing displays. When I click on Information they all say: Type -
unknown, 0 bytes, 0 points, 0 cells.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Teresa

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:52 PM
To: Palmer, Teresa
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: RE: RES: [Paraview] Problems reading Ensight files

Let's keep this on the ParaView mailing list.

Are you saying that when you load the .encas file the entire data set
loads properly or that there are no errors in the .encas file itself?
To open an EnSight data set, ParaView expects you to load a case file
(an ASCII file that points to geometry and variable files), so if you
try to load geometry (.geo) or variable (.vel and .scl1, in your data
set) files directly instead of loading a case file, I would not expect
ParaView to know what to do.  Also ParaView may have trouble with the
.encas file extension (assuming this is your case file) since it expects
EnSight case files to have the extension .case.

- Amy

At 02:04 PM 8/17/2005, Palmer, Teresa wrote:

Hi Amy,

I have an .encas file which has loaded fine but it's the .vel .geo .scl1
files which cause it to crash. I have looked the  Ensight website which
talks about exporting the files from Fluent 
http://www.ensight.com/FAQ/faq.0019.html
and it seems like the files are exported with these extensions,

Thanks,
Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Squillacote [ mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com
<mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com> ] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 6:33 AM
To: Renato N. Elias; Palmer, Teresa
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: RES: [Paraview] Problems reading Ensight files

Hi Teresa,

Is your G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel file an EnSight case file?  They
usually have the file extension .case.  If you have a file with the
.case extension for this data set, try loading it instead of the .vel
one.

- Amy

At 07:24 PM 8/15/2005, Renato N. Elias wrote:

Ok,

Are you trying to read Binary or ASCII data? Were your data files
written by Fortran or C language?

Renato.

  _____  

De: Palmer, Teresa [ mailto:Teresa_Palmer at nrel.gov] 
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 15 de agosto de 2005 20:16
Para: Renato N. Elias
Assunto: RE: [Paraview] Problems reading Ensight files

It still crashed,

Thanks

Teresa

-----Original Message-----
From: Renato N. Elias [ mailto:rnelias at nacad.ufrj.br] 
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:23 PM
To: Palmer, Teresa
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: RES: [Paraview] Problems reading Ensight files

Hello Teresa,

First of all, try to set up the byte order to "little endian" 

cheers

Renato N. Elias

NACAD/COPPE/UFRJ

Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias

  _____  

De: paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br at paraview.org [
mailto:paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br at paraview.org] Em nome de
Palmer, Teresa
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 15 de agosto de 2005 19:17
Para: paraview at paraview.org
Assunto: [Paraview] Problems reading Ensight files

Hi,

I am totally new to ParaView and have been given some files in Ensight
Case Gold Format to read. However, everytime I load up the files and
then press Accept the program exits/crashes.  The trace script reads as
follows.

Any ideas - I will do the tutorials though in case this is some novice
error on my part,

$kw(vtkTemp5) ReadFileInformation $kw(vtkTemp916)
"G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel"

$kw(vtkTemp5) FinalizeRead $kw(vtkTemp916)
"G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel"

set kw(vtkTemp938) [$kw(vtkTemp916) GetPVWidget {Filename}]

$kw(vtkTemp938) SetValue "G:/Fluent/ensight-vel-mag.vel"

set kw(vtkTemp923) [$kw(vtkTemp916) GetPVWidget {ByteOrder}]

$kw(vtkTemp923) SetCurrentValue {0}

set kw(vtkTemp933) [$kw(vtkTemp916) GetPVWidget {PointArrays}]

set kw(vtkTemp937) [$kw(vtkTemp916) GetPVWidget {CellArrays}]

# Error or warning:

# There was a VTK Error in file:
\martink\ParaView14\Servers\Filters\vtkPVEnSightMasterServerReader.cxx
(225)

#  Error reading case file on at least one node.

#
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