[Paraview] Cannot read LS-dyna *.k file

[LOW LEE LEONG, VE/CAE]

Hi David,
       Thank you again for guiding me.
I am sorry to disturb you again with one more question.
May I know how to visualize STAR-CD result in Paraview? Currently what I
do is, I write out Ensight format from Star-CD and then use Paraview to
visualize the result. However I found that the visual is not up to the
expectation which I believe is due to Ensight write out flaw.
Maybe you can share with me how people visualize their Star-CD result.

Thank you,
Lee Leong


-----Original Message-----
From: David C Thompson [mailto:dcthomp at sandia.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:54 AM
To: LOW LEE LEONG, VE/CAE
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: RE: [Paraview] Cannot read LS-dyna *.k file

> Yes I could open *.k if the folder contains all the output files. 
> Actually I try to visualize a hypermesh data. I thought if I could
write
> out the 2-D element in *.key format, then I could use Paraview to
> visualize it. However, it seems that I would need LS-dyna output to do
> the visualization.  It is a bad news for me as my model is a STAR-CD
> model. I thought I could combine the mesh element in *.key and Ensight
> (result data write from Star-CD) to get a good visualization of my CFD
> analysis.
I agree, it would be nice if the LS-Dyna reader could parse all of the
information in the input deck, but I didn't have the time to write
something that could parse all those keywords. However, there are
manuals specifying the input deck file format here

http://www.dynamore.de/download/con_download_manuals.php?frame=ok

and specifically 

http://www.dynamore.de/download/manual/ls-dyna_970_manual_k.pdf

You might be able to use these manuals to convert the geometry into
another simple text-based format.

	Cheers,
	David


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