Error Opening Transient Ensight Gold Export from Fluent on Linux Cluster in Paraview

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I’m attempting to open the results from a transient Fluent simulation in Paraview. My results are in an Ensight Gold format with results written every 0.25 seconds. The simulation was run on a Linux computer cluster. I am getting the following errors in Paraview:

ERROR: In vtkGenericEnSightReader.cxx, line 465

vtkPGenericEnSightReader (000001EBA68BBA60): Unable to open file: C:\Users{user-name}\Downloads\7-6_10DegTurbFarWall\Results\common/FFF.100001.geo

Warning: In vtkGenericEnSightReader.cxx, line 466

vtkPGenericEnSightReader (000001EBA68BBA60): Assuming binary file.

ERROR: In vtkGenericEnSightReader.cxx, line 465

vtkPGenericEnSightReader (000001EBA68BBA60): Unable to open file: C:\Users{user-name}\Downloads\7-6_10DegTurbFarWall\Results\common/FFF.100001.geo

Warning: In vtkGenericEnSightReader.cxx, line 466

vtkPGenericEnSightReader (000001EBA68BBA60): Assuming binary file.

I have tried the usual remove quotes, delete script lines, and save as .case instead of .encas with no luck. I also tried find and replace “/” with “” using MobaTextEditor, Notepad++, and Notepad; however, no occurrences of “/” were found in the file. I turned on special characters viewing and couldn’t see these characters either. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide on solving this issue.

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Please share your data.

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FYI: @caitlin.ross

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Hi @Max_Munson, in ParaView 6 (release candidates now available at www.paraview.org/download), there is a new EnSight reader rewritten from the ground up available in the EnSightGoldCombinedReader plugin (Tools menu → Manage Plugins…) that you can load. You might want to try to use that to see if it does better loading your data file.

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Using the EnSightGoldCombinedReader plugin gave a new error:
Generic Warning: In EnSightFile.cxx, line 418
opening file C:/Users/{user}/Downloads/7-17_1-DegTurbFarWall/717initcas00001.geo failed!

Generic Warning: In EnSightFile.cxx, line 237
the file C:/Users/{user}/Downloads/7-17_1-DegTurbFarWall/717initcas00001.geo could not be opened

Generic Warning: In EnSightDataSet.cxx, line 1374
couldn’t correctly set time step to read. Aborting

Generic Warning: In EnSightDataSet.cxx, line 520
Skipping case file section: SCRIPTS

Generic Warning: In EnSightFile.cxx, line 418
opening file C:/Users/{user}/Downloads/7-17_1-DegTurbFarWall/717initcas00001.geo failed!

Generic Warning: In EnSightFile.cxx, line 237
the file C:/Users/{user}/Downloads/7-17_1-DegTurbFarWall/717initcas00001.geo could not be opened

Generic Warning: In EnSightDataSet.cxx, line 1374
couldn’t correctly set time step to read. Aborting

I think the new issue is that my transient simulation exported ensight data every 0.25 seconds of flow-time. Is there a way to tell paraview my time steps I have data for so that it doesn’t try to open data that doesn’t exist? I have also attached my .encas file in case that helps. I can’t upload my entire data set as it’s well over 60 GB.

717initcas.encas (568.4 KB)

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Please use a file sharing website like wetransfer.com, you can split your data in multile parts if needed.

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Are you saying this file doesn’t exist?

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I mean, @Max_Munson did not share it here at least.

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Indeed. I meant does that file not exist in the full dataset @Max_Munson? I’m trying to understand what you mean by

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@mwestphal Sorry it took me a while to respond, but here’s the link to my files: Box.

@cory.quammen Also yes, that file does not exist in the full dataset.

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Well, then your data is not complete.

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I had Fluent export the ensight data every 0.25 seconds of flow time so that is the data that exists. Is there a way to tell Paraview to only look for data at the times that I have?

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I’m afraid the Ensight reader cannot do that and I’m not sure it should.

In your file you define::

model:  1   "717initcas*****.geo"

and

number of steps: 30388

So ParaView expect 30388 geo files if I’m not mistaken.