[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] SWKey: Does the PV EnSight reader accept global data?

[Scott, W Alan]

Sam,  
With regards to your last question, does EnSight Gold format have a place for global variables, I believe the answer is yes (sort of).  From the EnSight 10 user's manual:

EnSight Case Gold (recommended format)
- is much faster than EnSight 6 and is more memory efficient (noticeable if you
have a large number of parts or for larger models)
- uses connectivity which can be separate from the node ids
- uses a part basis rather than a global array

The PDF for this manual (including a good description of the file formats) can be found online at the EnSight web page here:  http://www3.ensight.com/EnSight10_Docs/UserManual.pdf

Alan

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From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Samuel Key
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:36 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] SWKey: Does the PV EnSight reader accept global data?

ParaView Users,

I have noticed that ParaView 4.1.0-64 on its third tool bar has a filter button for "Plot Global Variables Over Time." The simulation software that I run has global variables total KE, total IE, et cetera.

To date, the simulation software produces EnSight 'Gold' 
binary-formatted results file sets. To get plots of global variables over time, I have contemplated writing code to create an additional EnSight results file set that has a single-vertex cell to which all of the global variables are assigned. Such an approach would be efficient to capture every-time-step results.

However, I would like to be able to put global variables in a single EnSight results file set if for no other reason than to make the management of simulation results easier.

The question is -- Does the EnSight Gold binary-formatted reader in Paraview accept global variables?

Maybe the first question should be -- Does the EnSight Gold format have a place for global variables?

Sam Key
FMA Development, LLC
1005 39th Ave NE
Great Falls, Montana 59404
USA
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