dump reader for Paraview 4.4.0

Submitted by rubikon2045 on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 15:23

Hello!

First of all, I'm real CFD, DEM and Linux newbie.

But I got it to install OPENFOAM 3.0.1 with Paraview 4.4.0, LIGGGHTS 3.3.1 and CFDEM-coupling 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 (64 bit).

To watch DEM results I want to use the the dump reader-plugin from richtie83
But Paraview gives me this error message:

ERROR: In /home/denis/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-3.0.1/ParaView-4.4.0/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/vtkPVPluginLoader.cxx, line 360
vtkPVPluginLoader (0x50384c0): /home/denis/Paraview_plugins/libliggghts_reader.so: invalid ELF-Header

I tried with the versions 4.0.1, 4.3.1 and 5.0.0 .
Always the same result.

Kind regards,
Denis

medvedeg | Mon, 09/05/2016 - 18:26

If it is already VTK you should not have any problems. It is controlled like in the following line in the LIGGGHTS input script file:
"dump dmp all custom/vtk 1000 post/dump*.kuku.vtk"
If it is like "dump dmp all custom 1000 post/dump*.kuku" (no VTK mentioning) you wont be able to use these files directly in ParaView. You need to transform the dump files to VTK by LPP package.

Alexander Podlozhnyuk

rubikon2045 | Mon, 09/05/2016 - 20:36

First of all, thanks for your second support.

it is like "dump dmp all custom 1000 dump.1 id type type x y z ix iy iz vx vy vz fx fy fz omegax omegay omegaz radius", without vtk.
I thought when I use the "libliggghts_reader.so" plug-in for Paraview, it is suitable to watch results without the conversion to vtk.
So is it ineluctable to install the lpp.py?

Kind regards,
Denis