CFD Ensight Reader Options

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.



図 1.

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