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.



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