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[designteam2]

I ran an ansys fluent simulation overnight. I saved the exported data from calculated activities as .gz files. How do I open these files in post CFD? When I open post CFD I get this message when I try to load results. 

 

It automatically pulled up the last file from my last save, but I want to load FFF-1-7500.cdat.gz 

[Keyur Kanade]

are you using fluent and cfdpost in workbench or standalone?

if you read the latest cdat file for a transient run, it will read those files. 

[designteam2]

Im using ansys fluent and clicking the results (cfdpost) cell. How do you read the latest cdat file for a transient run in the results cell?  

[designteam2]

 After an overnight simulation, I log back into the computer, go to the file folder and delete the .lock file. Then open up the workbench file and open at the risk of corrupting the file (so it doesn't open at the last saved moment which was the night before). The workbench looks like this. the lightning bolt usually has a pause sign by it I think. If I open the solution cell it opens with the last saved data. But I can see that the cdat.gz files I need are more recent. 

 

 

When responding can you either show an image or explain in detail what buttons you are clicking to read the cdat.gz file?

[Keyur Kanade]

first run it again. save it with different name and try opening results. 

this should work. 

now what i was saying is open cfd-post in stand alone mode. i.e. go to windows > start and type cfd-post. then open cfd-post where you can read .cdat file. 

[designteam2]

I tried going to windows and typed "cfd-post". I get a cfdpost_errorlog text document. 

[Keyur Kanade]