[Paraview] Transient Fluent Data

Renato N. Elias rnelias at nacad.ufrj.br
Wed Nov 12 11:00:20 EST 2008


Weird, it should work... I've already loaded transient geometries in PV 
in the past...

Have you tried to change the byte order (little/big endian)?

Cheers

Renato.

Stephen Gillen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use Paraview to postprocess transient results from Fluent. I
> am new to paraview and I have so far only used it for steady data with
> little or no problems.
>
> I am exporting the data as EnSight Case Gold files, and so Fluent writes a
> case file(actually outputs as .encas but cam simply change to .case or when
> opening choose files of *.*) along with .geo and other variable files. When
> it is just a steady simulation ParaView reads the files with no problem
> however when it is transient data it gives the following error.
>
>
> ERROR: In ..\..\..\ParaView3\VTK\IO\vtkGenericEnSightReader.cxx, line 389
> vtkGenericEnSightReader (0DAE5380): Unable to open file:
> C:\Workingfiles\motion\Anj\NewFolder\/C:\Workingfiles\motion\Anj\NewFolder\1
> 25_m-0001.geo
>
>
> Warning: In ..\..\..\ParaView3\VTK\IO\vtkGenericEnSightReader.cxx, line 390
> vtkGenericEnSightReader (0DAE5380): Assuming binary file.
>
>
> However the case still appears in the pipeline browser though no operations
> can be carried out on it.
>
>
> The only other option for transient data is to read in the data for each
> time step. However paraview doesn't seem to link together the timesteps, is
> there any way of forcing to link them.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Stephen Gillen 
>
>
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