[Paraview] LS-DYNA files fail to load

[Andrew Jesse Connell]

David C Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 16:59 -0400, Andrew Jesse Connell wrote:
>   
>> David C Thompson wrote: 
>>     
>>>> I've been trying to view LS-Dyna files, and I downloaded some to try out 
>>>> from http://www.lsdyna-portal.com and 
>>>> http://www.ncac.gwu.edu/vml/models.html . When I try to open them, 
>>>> though, they all fail with the same error:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 	Are you trying to read the input decks or output produced by LS-Dyna?
>>> The LS-Dyna reader in VTK only reads part names from the input decks...
>>> it requires output (in the form of d3plot files) in order to display any
>>> data.
>>>
>>> 	David
>>>   
>>>       
>> I tried the input deck first (the .k file?) and then the data file
>> that I assume goes with it. (A .key file. Is this different from the
>> output file you mentioned?)
>>     
>
> Both ".k" and ".key" are used for input decks. The output files are
> binary (not ASCII text) and are usually named "d3plot", "d3plot01", ...
> Because the output files don't have any extension and because ParaView
> uses file extensions to identify which reader to use, the
> vtkLSDynaReader will take an input deck filename and try to find an
> output file in the same directory. Sorry, but you'll need to run LS-Dyna
> on the .k/.key files before you can use VTK's LS-Dyna reader to view the
> models in them.
>
> 	David
>   

Ah, OK. I don't have access to LS-Dyna at the moment, so I guess I'm out
of luck for now. Thanks again for helping me clear that up.

Jesse