[Paraview] Error with EnSight6 reader with "transient single file format" and "scalar per element" variable

[Berk Geveci]

Hi David,

I just responded to what seems to be a related question. I wrote the
following:

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Hi Jean,

I looked at the dataset and it looks fine at first glance. It is possible
that this is a bug in the reader. Unfortunately, we don't do any work on
that particular reader because Ensight 6 is a very old format and not in
active use. Is there any way you can try the Ensight Gold format? To see an
example of this sort of thing working, download VTKData from:

http://vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html

In there, look for blow1_ascii.case and associated files.

Also, this may have something to do with the way the file is written. I
noticed that the displacement are written in a Fortran style with no spaces
between the numbers. I am not sure if our parser (which uses C++) supports
that or not.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM, David Luet <luet at princeton.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> When loading an Ensight 6, ASCII with  "transient single file format" and
> "scalar per element" variable in paraview I get the error message:
> *ERROR: In
> /home/kitware/Dashboards/MyTests/ParaView-master/VTK/IO/vtkEnSight6Reader.cxx,
> line 1187*
> *vtkEnSight6Reader (0x24b5640): invalid element type*
> The message is repeated twice when loading a file with 3 time steps.
>
> I have attached a simple example as a tarball. Here are the specs of the
> example:
> - geometry: 8 nodes, 2 elements (quad4).
> - variables:
>    - vector per node: displacements.
>    - scalar per element: pressure.
> - 3 time steps
>
> The tarball has two subdirectories:
> - AsciiMultipleFile: the example in a "transient multiple file format"
> - AsciiSingleFile: the example in a "transient single file format"
>
> The "transient multiple file format" works. The "transient single file
> format" works if only the geometry and the "vector per node" variables
> (displacement) are specified, but fails if the "scalar per element"
> variables (pressure) are included. The "transient single file format" files
> were basically built by concatenating the "transient multiple file format"
> files and adding the "BEGIN TIME STEP" and "END TIME STEP" headers between
> the time steps.
>
> I am running paraview v. 3.12.0 Linux x86, 64 bit that I downloaded as a
> binary, on a Linux CentOS 5.7 (x86_64).
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
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