[Paraview] Reading a constant EnSight Geometry Mesh with Variables that Change over Time

[John.CTR.Mick at faa.gov]

Hello!
     I am currently trying to create an EnSight Gold dataset that defines 
a Structured Grid Geometry Mesh that is constant for all time values, but 
the VARIABLES section contains scalars which change over time.  This is 
extremely desirable, as it reduces the file size significantly by not 
requiring me to repeat a large mesh of points for each timestep - when the 
mesh itself is constant and never changes over time.

     I saw this issue was brought up back in 2006, and it does not appear 
that the thread was ever resolved:
               
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2006-November/004180.html 
Has anybody had any luck defining a constant mesh with variables changing 
over time within the mesh with EnSight?

I have attached an example snippet of what I have come up with so far. 
This file will pass the "ens_checker" validation program provided with the
EnSight software, but when I attempt to open it in ParaView, ParaView 
locks up and crashes.


Best Wishes!
     -John Mick

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EnSight Gold CASE File:
# Comment 1
# Comment 2
# Comment 3

FORMAT
type: ensight gold

GEOMETRY
model: ServiceLPV.geo

VARIABLE
scalar per node: 1 1 VPL ServiceLPV.vpl
scalar per node: 1 1 HPL ServiceLPV.hpl

TIME
time set: 1
number of steps: 13
filename start number: 1
filename increment: 1
time values:
19273190
19273220
19273250
19273280
19273310
19273340
19273370
19273400
19273430
19273460
19273490
19273520
19273550

FILE
file set: 1
number of steps: 13


EnSight Gold Geometry File:
BEGIN TIME STEP
# Comment 1
# Comment 2
node id assign
element id assign
part
         1
# Grid Specification
block uniform
       141        81         1
       -40.0
         0.0
         0.0
        -1.0
         1.0
         1.0
END TIME STEP
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