[Paraview] ParaView 5.0.0 for Windows x64 fails to open EnSight Gold files

Mon Feb 29 01:00:50 EST 2016

I performed another test with *EnSight 6* (not Gold) format. Conversion was
made on Win-7 x64 machine. The same results: PV 4.3 crashed, PV 5.0 "cannot
stat" (full error message is in my first post on this topic). Sorry, now I
need to work on with my report...

2016-02-29 8:47 GMT+03:00 Andrew <antech777 at gmail.com>:

> Hello. Sorry for silence, I'm usually offline on holydays, although I have
> internet connection and read your mail.
>
> Samuel Key
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> About transferring files from Linux to Windows. I use binary EnSight files
> because CFX converter fails to write so large files in ASCII format. But I
> tried to convert from CFX to EnSight (binary) on the same Win-7 x64 machine
> with ParaView. Both installed versions (4.3 and 5.0) failed to open the
> geometry (I unchecked all fields). ParaView 4.3 crashed, ParaView 5.0 just
> cannot open file...
>
> I think that the root cause may be a geometry file size. It is 4.9 GiB
> (5.3 GB), mesh have about 150 millions of cells, not 600 thusands like in
> your case. Its possible that ParaView for Windows cannot process so large
> EnSight files, although the Linux version reads in this geometry and
> displays outline (swapping is so intensive so I cannot displaye something
> else).
>
> 2016-02-26 19:31 GMT+03:00 Samuel Key <samuelkey at bresnan.net>:
>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> For what it is worth, I use ParaView
>> (ParaView-5.0.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit) on Windows-7 64bit. I just now
>> tested two medium-sized, EnSight Gold-formatted simulation results files
>> (600,000 finite elements) and both worked.
>>
>> In the past, I have had difficulty with the EnSight ASCII-formatted
>> *.case file when moving the simulation results (*.case file and friends)
>> from MS Windows to EnSight running on a linux platform. It was necessary to
>> pass the ASCII *.case file through a 'dos2unix' filter. Transferring files
>> the other way might have the same problem???
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Samuel Key
>> FMA Development, LLC
>> 1005 39th Ave NE
>> Great Falls, Montana 59404
>> USA
>>
>> On 2/25/2016 11:26 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>
>> Hello. We use Ansys CFX in our work but the standard post-processor
>> CFD-Post consumes one of Ansys licenses while Paraview is free. So I often
>> make pictures for reports with ParaView to preserve Ansys license for
>> another users/needs (because other users are not familiar with ParaView and
>> CFD-Post may consume general "acfd" license feature that may be used for
>> calculations). I convert CFX results to EnSight Gold format in CFX Solver
>> Manager (Export Results) and then open in ParaView. It was working well on
>> Linux (CentOS 6.7 x64, Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with updates) but now I work with
>> large files and I need to use another machine that has 128 GB of RAM and
>> runs Windows-7 x64.
>> I downloaded and installed the following version:
>> ParaView-5.0.0-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit.exe
>> When I open my EnSight-format file I receive the error message that
>> geometry file cannot be read. I tried to move EnSight files to a simple
>> location (D:\Temp) and renamed them (test.case, test.geom + edited the case
>> to change geometry file name to "simple" one). The same result, it cannot
>> find geometry file... Full error message is as follows:
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader.cxx,
>> line 114
>> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): stat failed.
>>
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader.cxx,
>> line 220
>> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): Unable to open file:
>> D:\Storage\Media\Work\Gradirni\CFX\EnSight\C-G002L3S-R020-S000-14.5\/C-G002L3S-R020-S000.geom
>>
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\IO\EnSight\vtkEnSightReader.cxx, line
>> 306
>> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader (0000000009451230): error reading geometry
>> file
>>
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> C:\bbd\df0abce0\source-paraview\VTK\Common\ExecutionModel\vtkExecutive.cxx,
>> line 784
>> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0000000008E1A640): Algorithm
>> vtkEnSightGoldBinaryReader(0000000009451230) returned failure for request:
>> vtkInformation (00000000093C3920)
>>   Debug: Off
>>   Modified Time: 214873
>>   Reference Count: 1
>>   Registered Events: (none)
>>   Request: REQUEST_DATA
>>   ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>>   FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>>   FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>>
>> OK, I tried to open it in ParaView 4.3. It says nothing (only border of
>> the message window appears) and crashes. At that moment I see in the status
>> bar that EnSight reader progress is 100%.
>>
>> Both ParaView 5.0.0 and 4.3 was tested with EnSight files exported on
>> Linux and Windows machine. It didn't help.
>>
>> OK, I tried to export CFX results to CGNS format. ParaView 5.0.0 (without
>> MPI) cannot read it, so I fed it to ParaView 4.3. It says that its "unable
>> to filed any meshes".
>>
>> I also performed an experiment on my Linux laptop. It has only 16 GB of
>> RAM so its unreal to work with such a big file on this machine but it reads
>> the same EnSight case and displays the domain! No arrays selected (mesh
>> only), swap file grows up to 8 GB but the file opens without errors and
>> crashes. It's only a test because I have not any Linux machine with memory
>> large enough (our Linux cluster has 128 GB of RAM on every node including
>> master but it has very poor video).
>>
>> I switched to CFD Post for this case but I want to know are there any
>> workarounds to open my EnSight-format results in ParaView for Windows.
>>
>> Thanks for your attention.
>>
>>
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