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 <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]>: > >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >> >> Follow this link to >> subscribe/unsubscribe:http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >
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