<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All, <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I am a new to paraview. I got errors with loading ANSYS .inp to paraview 3.10.0.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I was using ANSYS workbench for structural analysis. I modeled a simple FE solid model with 1728 nodes and 225 elements and then applied force on it to see the deformation. I exported the simulation data to .inp file from ANSYS workbench and then import to the new released Paraview. But I got errors as follows:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">------------------</span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Courier; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Warning: In /Users/partyd/Kitware/ParaView-3.10/source/VTK/Filtering/vtkDataObject.cxx, line 910</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">vtkUnstructuredGrid (0x1239d9d80): Attempted to ShallowCopy from null.</span></font></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ERROR: In /Users/partyd/Kitware/ParaView-3.10/source/Utilities/VisItBridge/visit_vtk/full/vtkUnstructuredGridRelevantPointsFilter.C, line 92</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">vtkUnstructuredGridRelevantPointsFilter (0x1253d6910): No data to Operate On!</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800000" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; ">------------------</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">What I did in Paraview was opening the file and select the .inp file and then hit apply. And then the errors came out. The errors indicated no data to operate on, but there are nodes data and elements data in the file. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Does anybody know why? Is it because the different versions of ANSYS might generate different .inp file format? (I was using ANSYS workbench. ) The most recent documentation didn't indicate which version of ANSYS that paraview can read. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Please somebody help me ! Thank you very much!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Sincerely </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Krolen</div><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; font-family:'Courier'; font-size:13pt; color:#800000;"></p><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; font-family:'Courier'; font-size:13pt; color:#800000;"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><!--EndFragment--></div></div></body></html>