Chet,

Thanks for looking this over for me.  I think I can probably recompile my 
solver using a newer TecIO library as a workaround.

Best Regards,


Zach Davis
Pointwise®, Inc.
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> On Apr 12, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Chet Nieter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Zach,
> 
> It looks like you are facing a similar issue to the one that Christopher 
> reported earlier here:
> 
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293 
> <https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293>
> 
> In that particular case the file he was trying to read was an older version 
> of the Tecplot file format and the Paraview Tecplot reader did not know what 
> to do with the header information in the file. As Cory mentioned a recent 
> change to ParaView which is not in the 5.3 release fixed the freeze but 
> currently ParaView does not support the older Tecplot format. Based on the 
> error that Cory is reported the Tecplot reader is still expecting to find 
> header information even though it is now reading the section of the file 
> where the data resides. I can’t say for sure but I suspect your file may also 
> be an older version of the Tecplot file format which is currently not 
> supported by the ParaView Tecplot reader.
> 
> Chet
> 
> =======================================
> Chet Nieter, Ph.D
> R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
> http://www.kitware.com/company/team/nieter.html 
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> =======================================
> 
> 
>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Cory Quammen <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Zach,
>> 
>> With recent changes to ParaView (March 15, 2017), I was able to "open"
>> the file in the most recent development version of ParaView without
>> getting stuck in an infinite loop, but I did get the following
>> warnings:
>> 
>> Warning: In 
>> /Users/cory.quammen/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkTecplotReader.cxx,
>> line 1795
>> vtkTecplotReader (0x1350d2c00):
>> /Users/cory.quammen/Desktop/oneram6-prism_tec_boundary.dat; Tecplot
>> zone record parameter 'SOLUTIONTIME' is currently unsupported.
>> Warning: In 
>> /Users/cory.quammen/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkTecplotReader.cxx,
>> line 1789
>> vtkTecplotReader (0x1350d2c00):
>> /Users/cory.quammen/Desktop/oneram6-prism_tec_boundary.dat; Tecplot
>> zone record parameter 'STRANDID' is currently unsupported.
>> ERROR: In 
>> /Users/cory.quammen/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkTecplotReader.cxx,
>> line 1902
>> vtkTecplotReader (0x1350d2c00):
>> /Users/cory.quammen/Desktop/oneram6-prism_tec_boundary.dat: The record
>> type 0.317283460316E+02 found in the file is unknown.
>> 
>> The read fails, but hopefully this tells you what is going on.
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Cory
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Zach Davis <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Christopher,
>>> 
>>> Sorry, about the link.  I would attach the file here, but it exceeds the
>>> mailing list’s size limits.  The solver I’m using is probably using an older
>>> version of the TecIO library, since changes to the Tecplot file format have
>>> been changing pretty frequently in recent years…  Hopefully someone else who
>>> can download the file can help identify which token(s), if any, are causing
>>> a problem.
>>> 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Zach Davis
>>> Pointwise®, Inc.
>>> Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
>>> 213 South Jennings Avenue
>>> Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107
>>> 
>>> E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> P: (817) 377-2807 x1202
>>> F: (817) 377-2799
>>> 
>>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Christopher Neal <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That link doesn't seem to work either :(
>>> 
>>> For me, those terms were apparently out of date with what the reader was
>>> expecting. And so when it hit those tokens it just froze instead of jumping
>>> out and throwing an error. It's possible that you have other tokens(i.e.
>>> options) that are setting this off.  It could also be something else, but
>>> the scenario is very close to what I was dealing with.  Is the program that
>>> is writing the Tecplot file up-to-date with the newest Tecplot file format?
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Zach Davis <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Christopher,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for you input.  Apologies if the link wasn’t working for you.  At
>>>> least one person on the mailing list was able to download a copy
>>>> successfully.  I don’t know if this will help, but you might try seeing if
>>>> the following link works any better:
>>>> 
>>>> https://pointwiseenterprise.sharefile.com/d-sd1c1d4e9eeb450e8 
>>>> <https://pointwiseenterprise.sharefile.com/d-sd1c1d4e9eeb450e8>
>>>> 
>>>> I did a preliminary search for the terms “f=point” and “c=black” in my
>>>> text editor.  It doesn’t seem to have found either entries; though, it does
>>>> appear it’s stuck in a loop of some sort.
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Zach Davis
>>>> Pointwise®, Inc.
>>>> Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
>>>> 213 South Jennings Avenue
>>>> Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107
>>>> 
>>>> E: [email protected]
>>>> P: (817) 377-2807 x1202
>>>> F: (817) 377-2799
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Christopher Neal <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Zach,
>>>> 
>>>> I had a similar issue recently. I can't seem to download the file (it's
>>>> giving a 403 server error that I don't have permission to download).  The
>>>> kitware team found that the Paraview Tecplot reader would get into an
>>>> infinite loop if it had trouble reading some of the header information. In
>>>> my case it was a line that contained 'f=point c=black' which was causing 
>>>> the
>>>> issue.
>>>> 
>>>> The issue was resolved but the fix isn't in the current version. See the
>>>> Gitlab issue: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17293
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Zach Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tuesday, 11 April 2017
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’m encountering a problem in which ParaVIew seems to freeze when
>>>>> attempting to load a Tecplot *.dat file.  An example of a compressed *.dat
>>>>> file that’s causing this issue can be downloaded here (~4.4MB).  I’m using
>>>>> ParaVIew 5.3.0-219-g24f5a44 under macOS 10.12.4.  Note, the file fails to
>>>>> load under ParaView version 4.4 as well.  I’ve compressed the *.dat file
>>>>> with gzip for transmission—please unzip it prior to attempting to 
>>>>> reproduce
>>>>> the problem in ParaView.  Uncompressed it's a 16MB file, and shouldn’t 
>>>>> take
>>>>> very long to load…  Any ideas what might be the issue?  Is there a problem
>>>>> with the file’s format, or is ParaView the culprit?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Zach Davis
>>>>> Pointwise®, Inc.
>>>>> Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
>>>>> 213 South Jennings Avenue
>>>>> Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107
>>>>> 
>>>>> E: [email protected]
>>>>> P: (817) 377-2807 x1202
>>>>> F: (817) 377-2799
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
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>>>> Research Engineer
>>>> Streamline Numerics, Inc.
>>>> https://www.snumerics.com/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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