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Is it possible to use a User Defined Writer with SOS, for example write to STL?

Tagged: 2020 R1, ensight, fluid-dynamics, General
    • March 17, 2023 at 8:58 am
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      As of 2020R2, it is not possible to use User Defined Writers (UDWs) with spatial SOS. A workaround would be to export specific parts in EnSight Case Gold with spatial SOS, then reload them in non-SOS, then export in the desired UDF format. As of 2020R2 UDWs can be used with temporal SOS.

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