Problems reading Ensight Case Gold file exported from Ansys Fluent

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Hi,

I am running fluid dynamics simulations with ANSYS Fluent. I usually export the results to Ensight Case Gold in ASCII format and post-process them successfully in Paraview 5.13. However, when I try to export the results in binary format (still in Ensight Case Gold) to reduce their size, I can’t open them in Paraview, and I get these errors:

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I saw that this topic has already been discussed on this forum.

Can you tell me if a solution to this problem has been found or implemented, or if I can just export the results in ASCII format?

Thanks!

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Same answer as the other thread:

This will requires some contribution, either from a dev spending some time or from a someone funding the issue.
Do not hesitate to reach out to Kitware if you are interested by that.

https://www.kitware.com/

https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-are-features-and-bug-fixes-incorporated-into-paraview/4735/3

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Hi @enrisang, could you try out ParaView 6.0.0-RC1 and load the new EnSightGoldCombined reader plugin (Tools menu → Manage Plugins…). This is a new reader, perhaps it supports this file properly.

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Hi @cory.quammen, thank you for your tip! I tried with ParaView 6 and actually succeeded in opening the Ensight Case Gold file. However, it only allowed me to load the geometry of the CFD domain; all the point arrays and the measured particles part were not loaded. These are the warnings/errors that I got:

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