Troubleshooting XSimComposer Visualization
On Windows, XSimComposer Claims No Data Found Even Though it Exists
It is possible you are trying to visualize data from a folder other than a straight forward hard drive on the system. VSim relies on VisIt for visualisation and the following are known to cause problems:
Simulation directory path on a remote file system
Simulation path containing international characters
Simulation path uses the Universal Naming Convention (starts \\)
On Windows machines, data inside a directory following Universal Naming Convention (UNC), e.g., \\machine\directory\file, cannot be visualized using VisIt, the underlying visualization tool to XSimComposer. UNC style paths are not supported. Instead, map the UNC path to a letter drive on the machine.
Field Plots Not Being Updated
In certain simulations, you may be plotting multiple fields and notice that certain ones advance in time while others never update past time 0.
This is due to the fact that the latter fields, as illustrated by the J field in the Magnetic Fields of Wire (Text-based setup) example simulation, are actually static fields that are never updated throughout the simulation run. Thus, when these static fields are examined in the Visualization window, only the initial field data at time 0 is displayed because that is the only data generated.