Comparison plot involving an unsmry file and a text file with values for a FIELD entity does not work.

Problem: I load an unsmry file into Tecplot RS 2010 and then load an ascii formatted txt file, and try to make a comparison plot of the two, Tecplot RS 2010 does not show the comparison plot I was expecting.   Why does this happen? Solution: The Generic ASCII format is only intended to support wells. It has no way to specify that the entities are of a specific type.  An unsmry file can […]

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Comparison plot using a UNSMRY file and a .hist file works in Tecplot RS only if the .hist file is the active file.

Problem: I loaded an UNSMRY file and a .hist file and tried to make a comparison plot with them. If the UNSMRY file is the active file, then Tecplot RS shows a plot but no comparison, and if the .hst file is the active file then Tecplot RS does show a comparison plot. Why does Tecplot RS not show a comparison plot when the UNSMRY file is active? Solution: This […]

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Loading a CHEARS.hist file into Tecplot RS with entities other than wells

Problem: When I load a CHEARS.hist file containing entities other than wells into Tecplot RS, Tecplot RS thinks these entities are wells, and does not allow us to do the comparisons we need to do, whereas older versions of Tecplot RS did allow us to make these comparisons. How can I make these same comparisons in Tecplot RS? Solution: The CHEARS.hist file format is only intended to support wells. This […]

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