Also, Boyce, it looks like VisIt can read Tecplot data, so you could 
probably just use libMesh's TecplotIO.

- Dave



Derek Gaston wrote:
> The issue is that Exodus blocks start numbering at 1 instead of  
> zero....  You can loop over the elements and set their subdomain ID to  
> one to fix that error... But unfortunately you will probably run into  
> the next problem which is that Exodus boundary IDs start at 1 as well...
>
> The real fix is not to use the internal mesh generation of libmesh...  
> And instead read an exodus mesh in (which will have boundary ids and  
> block ids starting at 1).
>
> I have a hacked up version of libmesh's mesh generators that forces  
> them to start at 1 for numbering... But its just that: a hack.  It  
> won't be commited.  What I have on my list to do is to turn ids of 0  
> to MAX_ID when output... That way the examples will work.  If I get a  
> minute I'll try to do that today.
>
> Sorry about the trouble.
>
> Derek
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Boyce Griffith <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi, Folks --
>>
>> I am trying to get libMesh to output to an Exodus II file.  I am  
>> using a
>> recent pull of the SVN version of libMesh so that I can use libMesh  
>> with
>> PETSc 3.0.0.
>>
>> (By the way, I don't really care whether it is Exodus II or not ---  
>> I am
>> just trying to output data in a format which can be read by the VisIt
>> visualization tool.)
>>
>> I tried modifying ex3.C to change the I/O from GMV to ExodusII,  
>> i.e., I
>> simply changed the I/O from:
>>
>>   // After solving the system write the solution
>>   // to a GMV-formatted plot file.
>>   GMVIO (mesh).write_equation_systems ("out.gmv", equation_systems);
>>
>> to:
>>
>>   // After solving the system write the solution
>>   // to a Exodus II-formatted plot file.
>>   ExodusII_IO (mesh).write("out.exd");
>>
>> This compiles fine but I get the following error at run time:
>>
>> [ex_put_block] Error: element block id 0 already exists in file id 13
>>     exerrval = -1
>> Error writing element block.
>> [0] src/mesh/exodusII_io_helper.C, line 118, compiled Jul 27 2009 at
>> 12:09:26
>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'libMesh::LogicError'
>>   what():  Error in libMesh internal logic
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] *** Process received signal ***
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] Signal: Abort trap (6)
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] Signal code:  (0)
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 0] 2   libSystem.B.dylib
>>   0x912762bb _sigtramp + 43
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 1] 3   ???
>>   0xffffffff 0x0 + 4294967295
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 2] 4   libSystem.B.dylib
>>   0x912ea23a raise + 26
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 3] 5   libSystem.B.dylib
>>   0x912f6679 abort + 73
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 4] 6   libstdc++.6.dylib
>>   0x035b26ef _ZN9__gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv + 335
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 5] 7   libstdc++.6.dylib
>>   0x035b02a9 _ZSt14set_unexpectedPFvvE + 41
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 6] 8   libstdc++.6.dylib
>>   0x035b02ec _ZSt9terminatev + 28
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 7] 9   libstdc++.6.dylib
>>   0x035b03eb __cxa_throw + 107
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 8] 10  libmesh.dylib
>>   0x0204bb03 _ZN18ExodusII_IO_Helper9check_errEiSs + 693
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [ 9] 11  libmesh.dylib
>>   0x02050b76 _ZN18ExodusII_IO_Helper14write_elementsERK8MeshBase + 786
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [10] 12  libmesh.dylib
>>   0x02048021 _ZN11ExodusII_IO5writeERKSs + 953
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [11] 13  ex3-dbg
>>   0x00002e06 main + 1353
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] [12] 14  ex3-dbg
>>   0x0000275e start + 54
>> [griffith-macbook-pro:62440] *** End of error message ***
>>
>> I get similar errors if I try to do similar things in ex4.
>>
>> What do I need to do to output to this format?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Boyce
>>
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