Smokeview shows all legends to 0

[mlebourhis]

Hello,

I am a new user to CFast. I've installed it and ran some test models (thanks to all for debugging my previous problem due to decimal separator!!) but I can't visualise the results properly in smokeview.

For any slice that I create, SMV shows a uniform color slice, and the legend ranges to 0 from... 0 as if there were no data to show, although the case are simulated properly (from what I can see in the .csv files).

I also work with FDS, and surprisingly, SMV now does the same when showing the slice files (from former works).

Would anyone have an idea how to resolve this?

Regards

[mcgratta]

Post your CFAST input file.

[mlebourhis]

Gethub doesn't let me attach a .in file. Should I transmit one of the other files?

[mlebourhis]

Here is the .in file, via a link from a cloud:
https://cloud.oxalis.coop/s/GYp9kFq8KkmF8F6

[gforney]

for future reference you can upload your input file to github by changing the extension from .in to .txt

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[gforney]

I don't see a fire in your input file. open your case with cedit, then click on the fire tab. what do you see?

[mlebourhis]

There is no fire set in the model. I would like to use Cfast for natural ventilation analysis..

[gforney]

I don't understand your question then. If there is no fire there wont be a temperature rise. What were you expecting to see?

[mlebourhis]

The interior temperature is set to 30°C, outside temperature to 0°C. I am expecting to see the temperature decrease in the room. Also I wanted to calculate the flowrate. This is a very simple test case, just to see how Cfast works.

My main issue now is that installing SMV with Cfast sort of wrecked SMV for my FDS cases also..

[gforney]

Rerun the installer you used to install fds and smokeview or go to the smv github repo and pick a smokeview release and install it. This should replace the smokeview installed with the cfast installer

[gforney]

smokeview does not support files with embedded blanks. remove blanks from your file name (perhaps changing blanks to underscores _ and rerun your case. it should work.

[gforney]

@preneke please update cedit to prevent users from naming input files with embedded blanks. think that is a really bad idea

[mcgratta]

Has this been done yet?