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The Leading Tool for CFD Visualization

EnSight is the one complete visualization solution for your biggest CFD problems. EnSight's advanced functionality includes a calculator with more than 40 predefined CFD functions. EnSight customers include the majority of the world's aerospace and automotive companies, major chemical engineering firms, government engineering organizations, and leading R&D labs worldwide.

Data Format/Program	Type	Description	CFD/FEA/Other
ADINA CFD	4	Exports EnSight Case format	CFD
ACUSOLVE	2	Contact vendor for information	CFD
AVUS	1,4	See Knowledge Base for information	CFD
CFD ++	4	Exports EnSight Case format	CFD
CFD-ACE+	3	Use Free CFD-Toolkit under UTILS directory of CFD-ACE+ to convert DTF to EnSight Gold format	CFD
CFD-FASTRAN	3	Use Free CFD-Toolkit under UTILS directory of CFD-FASTRAN to convert DTF to EnSight Gold format	CFD
CFDESIGN	1	Uses Tecplot files and readers	CFD
CFX	1,3,4	1. Direct reader for CFX5, CFX10 and CFX11, contact This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it 2. CFX can export EnSight Case Format 3. Direct reader for CFX4, see Knowledge Base for information	CFD
CFX - TASCflow	3	Converts TASCflow output to EnSight format (or use Plot3D converter from vendor).	CFD
CGNS	3	User reader	CFD
COBALT	1,4	User defined reader (see AVUS)	CFD
CRAFT	4	Exports EnSight Case Gold format	CFD
CRUNCH	4	Exports EnSight Case Gold format	CFD
ESTET	1	Direct internal reader	CFD
FAST Unstructured	1	Direct reader for NASA FAST unstructured format	CFD
FDS	4	Code exports PLOT3D format (www.fire.nist.gov/fds)	CFD
FEFLO	3	Contact vendor for information	Reservoir
FENSAP	4	Contact vendor	CFD
FIDAP	1	Direct reader for FIDAP neutral (FDNEUT) files	CFD
FINE/AERO FINE/TURBO	1	Use Plot3D or CGNS files/reader	CFD
FIRE	4	Code exports EnSight format	CFD
FLOW-3D	1	User-defined reader for FLOW-3D results (flsgrf) files	CFD
FLUENT (version 6.1 and up)	1,3,4	Direct reader, translator and exports EnSight casefile format	CFD
FOAM or OpenFOAM	2,4	Includes both reader and export facilities for EnSight	CFD
GASP	4	Exports EnSight Case format	CFD
GUST	4	Exports EnSight Case format	CFD
KIVA-3	2,3,4	Conversion routines export EnSight 5 format, see Knowledge Base for information	CFD, Combustion
KIVA-4	4	Modified fulout.f to export EnSight 5 files.
NCC	2	Interface to National Combustion Code, This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for details	CFD
N3S	1	EDF N3S Code	CFD
NSMB	2	User-defined reader developed by CERFACS and CSCS	CFD
NSU2D/NSU3D	4	This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for information	CFD
PAM-FLOW	2	User-defined reader from ESI to read native PAM-FLOW files	CFD
PHOENICS	1	Use PLOT3D files/reader/ This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for information	CFD
PLOT3D	1	Direct reader for PLOT3D and FAST structured formats	CFD
Polyflow	4	Outputs EnSight Case format	CFD
PowerFlow	3	This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for information on interfaces available	CFD
RADIOSS-CFD	1	Contact MCUBE for interface details	CFD
SCRYU	1	User-defined reader	CFD
SC/TETRA	4	SC/TETRA exports EnSight Casefile format, see Knowledge Base for information	CFD
Star-CD (version 3.0.5 & up)	4	Code exports EnSight Casefile format, see Knowledge Base for information	CFD
TECPLOT	1	User-defined readers for structured and unstructured formats TECPLOT for v7 binary, TECPLOT_ASCII for v10 ASCII	Other
UH3D	4	See Knowledge Base for information	CFD
UNCLE	2	User-defined reader, This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for details	CFD
UNIC-CFD	3	Contact vendor for interface details	CFD
TetrUSS /USM3D	3	Use Translator to EnSight	CFD
VECTIS	1,3	User-defined reader	CFD
WIND/CFF	1	Common File Format (WIND code) reader source included as well as executables for Sun, SGI & Linux.	CFD

Type 1 -- Included Readers -- These are accessed by choosing the desired format in the Data Reader dialog. They include common data formats as well as a number of readers for commercial software. These can be internal EnSight Readers as well as User-Defined Readers that interface to EnSight's User-Defined Reader API. If the included reader is a User-Defined Reader there may be more info in $CEI_HOME/ensight80/src/readers. Also see the EnSight Online User Manual for details on using the reader.

Type 2 -- Not Included User-Defined Readers -- These are readers written by customers or vendors using EnSight's User-Defined Reader API. These have the advantage of not requiring a separate data translation step and thus reduce user effort and disk storage requirements. EnSight users can obtain these readers by following the contact information in the table. For writing your own User-Defined Reader, complete documentation and dummy routines may be found in the directory $CEI_HOME/ensight80/src/readers.

Type 3 -- Stand-Alone Translators -- These are written by customers or vendors to convert data into EnSight format files. Several translators are provided with EnSight. These are found in the directory $CEI_HOME/ensight80/translators. Translators must first be compiled before they can be used. Some require links to libraries provided by the vendor of the program in question. See the README files found in each translator's directory. For writing your own translator, a complete description of EnSight formats can be found in Chapter 11 of the EnSight Online User Manual.

Type 4 -- EnSight Format -- These are software vendors that support the EnSight format directly, i.e. an option is provided in their products to output data in EnSight5 or EnSight Case format. If you wish to export EnSight format directly, a complete description of EnSight formats can be found in Chapter 11 of the EnSight Online User Manual.