An issue about saving contour images using TUI

Mohammad74 · March 10, 2022, 10:33

Hello,

I have simulated the fluid flow in a domain consisting of around 9m cells on a hpc cluster. I tried to open the case and data files on my pc and figured out I even didn't have enough RAM for postprocessing. So now I'm trying to do the post processing remotely. I defined a contour to be displayed and to later take a picture of using :

Code:

/display/set/contours/surfaces/......
and then :
/display/contour/velocity-mag

I also restored a previously saved viewing properties file and took a picture of the contour using:

Code:

/display/views/restore-view...
/display/save-picture

And now: the colors are washed out as if there is too much brightness in the saved contour.
I used to be able to fix this problem by turning off lighting effects from gui, and now I'm trying to do the same thing from this tui menu:

Code:

/display/set/lights/lights-on no

but when i save a picture again, the picture is still washed out and that lights-on setting that I mentioned turns itself back on. What am I doing wrong here? Or even can I save this contour in a better way (like a data file) to be imported into software like tecplot etc. ?

Any helps would be appreciated,
Mohammad

p.s. I'm using Ansys fluent 17.0 in case that matters.

Mohammad74 · March 10, 2022, 16:56

So I uploaded my journal file on the cluster(which runs Fluent 19.2) and it saved the contour picture as intended. Looks like its a bug in Fluent version 17.0 (The version that I have locally)!
But now I have another small problem: The contour colormap does not have labels in the saved picture:
y11plane_V.png
I tried using /display/set/color-map, but this only changes the colors. Any ideas??

March 10, 2022, 10:33	An issue about saving contour images using TUI	#1
Mohammad74 Member Mohammad Shafiee Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 30 Rep Power: 7	Hello, I have simulated the fluid flow in a domain consisting of around 9m cells on a hpc cluster. I tried to open the case and data files on my pc and figured out I even didn't have enough RAM for postprocessing. So now I'm trying to do the post processing remotely. I defined a contour to be displayed and to later take a picture of using : Code: /display/set/contours/surfaces/...... and then : /display/contour/velocity-mag I also restored a previously saved viewing properties file and took a picture of the contour using: Code: /display/views/restore-view... /display/save-picture And now: the colors are washed out as if there is too much brightness in the saved contour. I used to be able to fix this problem by turning off lighting effects from gui, and now I'm trying to do the same thing from this tui menu: Code: /display/set/lights/lights-on no but when i save a picture again, the picture is still washed out and that lights-on setting that I mentioned turns itself back on. What am I doing wrong here? Or even can I save this contour in a better way (like a data file) to be imported into software like tecplot etc. ? Any helps would be appreciated, Mohammad p.s. I'm using Ansys fluent 17.0 in case that matters.

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March 10, 2022, 16:56		#2
Mohammad74 Member Mohammad Shafiee Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 30 Rep Power: 7	So I uploaded my journal file on the cluster(which runs Fluent 19.2) and it saved the contour picture as intended. Looks like its a bug in Fluent version 17.0 (The version that I have locally)! But now I have another small problem: The contour colormap does not have labels in the saved picture: y11plane_V.png I tried using /display/set/color-map, but this only changes the colors. Any ideas??