This month's Viz Corner offers a chance to vote for your platform on the EnSight home page, sign up for the new EnSight-Microsoft cluster initiative, the third article in a series on QuickTools, titled "QuickTools III: Native Python API", a new tutorial called the Detailed Part List, and a new solver page focused specifically on FLUENT, we will be sending out more of these solver pages throughout the year. 

Vote for your Plaform

Visit our home page to see the newest poll "My computer platform is..." to help us determine what platform is the most popular for our users. You can only vote once but check back to view the results as often as you like.

CEI and Microsoft expand HPC computing resources 

CEI has recently partnered with Microsoft to expand high-performance computing resources for CFD, FEA and CAE practitioners. Microsoft’s Windows CCS brings the power of HPC to the individual user as well as the medium and large compute cluster community. Although EnSight users can already leverage Microsoft Windows systems on client machines, this new environment will allow EnSight to work with Microsoft Windows CCS through the HPC compute servers. If you are interested in trying out EnSight on a Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS), please send an email to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it expressing your interest and to further discuss requirements and availability. 

QuickTools III: Native Python API

With EnSight 8.2.6(e), CEI introduced a new, native Python API. This API builds on and largely supersedes the 'ensight.sendmesg()' API provided in previous versions of EnSight. The 'sendmesg()' API is still present in EnSight, but Python developers may find this new API much simpler to work with. Tools are also provided to automate the conversion of EnSight command language into this new API. These functions are fully documented in section 6 of the EnSight 'Interface' manual.

In EnSight 8.2, you can now utilize a detailed part list for part list manipulation. This feature allows the user to bring more detailed part information into EnSight, and be able to select parts based on this new information. The part list can further be organized into groups and subgroups to allow the user to classify and group different parts within the model. Detailed part names, descriptions, and material properties can be specified for each part and/or grouping.

FLUENT solver page

This new webpage has information on how to read FLUENT data into EnSight, client stories related to EnSight and FLUENT, images and a direct link to CEI's knowledge base of information directly related to FLUENT. Check it out! There will be more solver pages coming in the future. Send an This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it to request your specific solver page be created.