Rupert, Would it be possible for you to send us a sample file and what the list of VARS you expect to see in the paraview?
Thanks, On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:37 AM Rupert Gladstone < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I have a question about netcdf formats. I am developing a coupled ice > sheet - ocean model. Currently both models run in the same cartesian > coordinate system. The ice model outputs unstructured .vtu files, which > paraview reads just fine. The ocean model outputs structured netcdf > files. If I naively select the "generic and CF conventions" option when > reading the ocean netcdf file then the data display ok, but not to scale. > It seems like the structured fields have been read in just fine, but the > coordinate variables have not. I don't think the netcdf files are CF > compliant. I would like to be able to read in both .vtu files and netcdf > files and display the data sets together on the same scale. > > Do you know what I need to do to read in the netcdf coordinate vars > correctly? I am hoping that I can simply insert a post-processing step to > implement some minor manipulation to the ocean model output files so that > Paraview can read them in to scale. Is it simply a case of renaming the > coordinate variables in the netcdf file such that they have the same names > as the corresponding dimensions? Note that this is not in general possible > as some of the coordinate variables are two-dimensional variables (in the > horizontal plane), though for most of the simulations we plan in the near > future I can enforce that the coord vars will have a one to one > correspondence to the dimension vars (i.e. I can enforce that coord vars > are 1D). > > Is the ordering of dimensions important? > Is the ordering of coordinate vars important? > Is the naming of dimensions important? > Is the naming of coord vars important? > Can Paraview cope with 2D coord vars? If so, how does Paraview know which > coordinate var applies to which var? > > Thanks very much for your help. > > Regards, > Rupert Gladstone > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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