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CFD Ensight Reader Options

CFD Ensight Reader Options

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CFD Ensight Reader Options

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The Reader Options dialog partially creates an environment variable in the background. If such a variable is already set, the dialog will read the variable while opening.

cfd_reader_options

In the Reader field, select CFD Ensight Reader. Then, from the drop down menu on the right, select either SC/Tetra ensight files option (to import result files exported from SC/Tetra in ensight format) or the CFD ensight files option (to import result files exported from other solvers, excluding SC/Tetra, in Ensight format).

Element types supported by the CFD Ensight Reader include:

Tria6
Tetra10
Tria3
Tetra4
Quad4
Pyramid5
Penta6
Mass
Bar
Hexa8

 

The supported formats of Ensight include:

Ensight Gold ASCII
Ensight Gold Binary
Ensight 6 ASCII
Ensight 6 Binary

 

SC/Tetra


To read SC/Tetra ensight files into hvtrans, the environment variable ALTAIR_ENSIGHT_FORMAT has to be set to SC/TETRA.

Note:Contour plotting for streamlines based on element bound results is currently not supported (e.g. PowerFlow, OpenFoam).