Hey Rick, Can you post the header part of an ASCII Plot3D file that you have? ParaView reads only one flavor of Plot3D so I want to make sure that that is what you have.
-berk On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Rick Burnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I have also generated an ASCII plot3D file, which I can get paraview to > read. However, paraview does not correctly interpret the grid file. The > geometry I create with my simple Fortran code is a cube. Paraview > successfully reads both the ASCII grid and data files, but when I view it in > paraview the geometry is incorrect. Tecplot does not have this problem with > the same grid and data files. I am interested in any suggestions on the > right combination of options to choose when reading this plot3D file into > paraview, but I have not been able to find the correct combination of > options to read a plot3D binary grid and data file. In addition, since > paraview does not display the correct geometry when I have it read an ASCII > version of the same grid and data plot3D files I believe there is more to > this than just choosing the right options. > There are a number of different plot3D formats and I have tried reading a > number of these into paraview, all with the same results. > Sincerely, > Rick > > On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:26 PM, da wrote: > > Have you tried generating an ascii file from Fortran and looking at it? I > don't believe there should be a difference whether its generated from > Fortran or C/C++ code. > Tecplot's reader automatically detects the options of the plot3d file - > while Paraview does not: its most likely the case that an option is set > incorrectly. > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Rick Burnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Paraview appears to have a limited ability certain plot3D files that were >> likely generated from C/C++ code, but is unable to read plot3D files >> generated from Fortran code. When I open a Fortran generated plot3D file I >> select "plot3D" as the file type and then select the following three >> options: "binary file", "has byte count" and if needed "multigrid". I have >> tried various combinations of these options without success. I wrote a >> short and simple Fortran program to generate a small test plot3D grid file >> and data file, which I can successfully read with tecplot, but is not >> readable in paraview 3.6.1. Has anyone had success reading Fortran >> generated plot3D files with a recent version of paraview and if so, what >> plot3D format was used and what paraview file options were selected? >> >> This is for paraview 3.6.1 on a mac running leopard. However, I run into >> the same problem on the windows version of paraview as well. >> >> Here is the error message I receive: >> >> ERROR: In >> /Users/kitware/ParaViewReleases/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader.cxx, >> line 783 >> vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader (0x223c4620): Error reading geometry file. >> >> >> ERROR: In >> /Users/kitware/ParaViewReleases/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx, >> line 757 >> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x223c4590): Algorithm >> vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader(0x223c4620) returned failure for request: >> vtkInformation (0x2245e940) >> Debug: Off >> Modified Time: 79689 >> Reference Count: 1 >> Registered Events: (none) >> Request: REQUEST_DATA >> FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0 >> ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1 >> FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0 >> >> Also, are there any plans to improve paraview's ability to read plot3D >> files? >> >> Sincerely, >> Rick >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
