Export to ensight!
 

Hi everyone,

I have a question about the built in capability to export the results from StarCD to Ensight format. When I use this command I always get everything as one huge part in Ensight, i.e. I don't get separate parts for different walls, fluids etc. Any input on this?

Regards Anders

Re: Export to ensight!
 

ENSIGHT, LF(case.GEO) (READ ONLY) ENSIGHT, OPTION (WRITE ONLY) Reads geometry data or writes out geometry and/or post data in a form which can be read by the Ensight post-processing visualization program. Post data can be either cell, vertex, boundary or wall data. A typical sequence of commands to write data might be:

cset news type 1

setwrite case.set

cset invert

setwrite case.set

load case.pst

ensi root

mymodel

ensi form bina

ensi all cell case.set

ensi done

The "setwrite" comand is used for this purpose.

Re: Export to ensight!
 

If you bring the parts into Prostar from ICEM then the names of the family are stored in the cell table name. I have an awk script that writes a prostar script to write out results in ensight format grouped by these wall names. If you have written out a part from icem with a name of bert then you get a bert.inp file. If you

awk -f icem2ensi.awk bert.inp

you get ensi.inp

ifile ensi.inp in prostar when you have a result LOADed.

Regards

Philip

File icem2ensi.awk follows:

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BEGIN {casename=ARGV[1]

gsub(".inp",""i,casename)

print "setd,"casename".set,all" > "ensi.inp"

print "cset news fluid" > "ensi.inp"

print "setw,"casename".set,fluid_domain,last" > "ensi.inp"

}

{

# make up a script that groups cells into sets by name

if (substr($0,0,6)=="ctname")

{

gsub(","," ")

print "cset news name",$3 > "ensi.inp"

print "setw,"casename".set,"$3,"last" > "ensi.inp"

}

}

END {print "direction write" > "ensi.inp"

print "ensi root" > "ensi.inp"

print casename > "ensi.inp"

print "ensi form bina" > "ensi.inp"

print "ensi all vert "casename".set" > "ensi.inp"

print "ensi done" > "ensi.inp"

}

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