[Paraview] Trouble loading Ensight/Gold data

[Rick Angelini]

I've run the data through the EnSight tool "ens_checker" and the dataset 
passes correctly.    But, there's clearly something that the ParaView 
reader doesn't like about the Pressure dataset.      Is the EnSight 
reader in Paraview using the VTK reader?    The reason I ask is that I 
am able to read this dataset using VisIt which I believe also uses the 
VTK Ensight reader. 

Peter Brady wrote:
> Our data is in the EnSight-Gold file format and we haven't encountered 
> any problems with 3.8.  Have you tried the ensight format checkers 
> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-March/016356.html 
> <blockedhttp://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-March/016356.html>?
>
> You could also try replacing one of the files that loads correctly 
> with an appropriately named pressure file.  I imagine this would tell 
> you if there's a problem in the pressure file format or in the case file.
>
> Peter
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com 
> <blockedmailto:andy.bauer at kitware.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sounds strange.  I'm not that familiar with the EnSight/Gold file
>     format but wonder if somehow the array doesn't have the same
>     number of tuples as there are points/cells in the grid for point
>     data/cell data.  Does it show up in the spreadsheet view?  Maybe
>     in the field data? 
>
>     Andy
>
>     On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Rick Angelini
>     <rick.angelini at us.army.mil
>     <blockedmailto:rick.angelini at us.army.mil>> wrote:
>
>         I have an EnSight/Gold case file that I'm able to read into a
>         couple of other vis packages with no problem.  When I load the
>         case file into Parview 3.6.2/3.8.0/3.9.x I don't get one of
>         the scalar files loaded.   (The scalar happens to be
>         pressure).     There are no error messages from the client or
>         server, ParaView just ignores this particular scalar value.
>         When I load the case file,  the variable shows up in the
>         properties window.  I select "Pressure",   and all of his
>         friends like Temp, Velocity, etc,  select APPLY, and then look
>         in the information tab.  "Pressure" is not listed.     This
>         Case file happens to have many timesteps defined, so I changed
>         it to only load one timestep - same behavior.    I selected
>         the first timestep, the last one, and many in the middle, same
>         behavior.   And of course, "Pressure" happens to be the
>         variable of interest!   8-)
>
>         I must be missing something really easy.   Unfortunately, I
>         can't share this data for debugging purposes.  
>
>
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