[Paraview] Postprocessing ANSYS file by Paraview

[Yuan CHEN]

Dear all friends

I am really green to the usage of Paraview.

I have been using the ANSYS for large scale FE analysis. Recently I node
that the paraview has the ability of view and postprocess the large .rst
file and it has already added the ANSYS file reader function.

However, I get limited information on how to do this.

According to the menu, I will have to create a Cmakelist.txt file like :

PROJECT(VisItReaderExample)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})

SET(SOURCES
 avtMyReaderFileFormat.C
 )

ADD_VISIT_PLUGIN_READER(VisItReaderExample "1.0"
  VISIT_READER_NAME "avtMyReaderFileFormat"
  VISIT_READER_TYPE "STMD"
  VISIT_READER_FILE_PATTERN "cas"
  SERVER_SOURCES ${SOURCES}
  )

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(VisItReaderExample vtkVisItAVTAlgorithms)

where avtMyReaderFileFormat.cxx is the source of the VisIt reader,
VISIT_READER_NAME is the name of the class inside the source file,
VISIT_READER_TYPE is the type of file format the reader is, and the
VISIT_READER_FILE_PATTERN is a space delimitated string of file extensions
that the reader supports. But I still dont get how I could change the the
file and how to import it into Paraview and then view my ANSYS file.

Say, the result file I will observe from ANSYS will be a .rst file , so
would this file be :

PROJECT(VisItReaderExample)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})

SET(SOURCES
 ANSYS.C
 )

ADD_VISIT_PLUGIN_READER(VisItReaderExample "1.0"
  VISIT_READER_NAME "ANSYS"
  VISIT_READER_TYPE "Binary"
  VISIT_READER_FILE_PATTERN "rst"
  SERVER_SOURCES ${SOURCES}
  )

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(VisItReaderExample vtkVisItAVTAlgorithms)

Could anybody give me a right format of the Cmakelist of ANSYS reader and ,
if possible , enlighten me how.

Many thanks

Best

Yuan Chen

University of Sheffield

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Yuan Chen
PhD student of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sheffield
Mapping Street
SHEFFIELD S1 3JD
United Kingdom
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