[Paraview] Trouble loading Ensight/Gold data

[Berk Geveci]

The EnSight reader that VisIt uses is a fork of the VTK reader from 5
years ago or so. So, they either fixed a bug and not contributed it back
or there has been a regression in the VTK reader since then.

-berk

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Rick Angelini <rick.angelini at us.army.mil> wrote:
> 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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