<div dir="ltr">Hmm. I knew that time step 0 shouldn't have any info (based on how the model works). Didn't realize that the first file could affect how the others are read in. So perhaps if I don't read in time step 0, steps 2 and 3 will be okay too. Renaming the first file works too.<div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Dan Lipsa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.lipsa@kitware.com" target="_blank">dan.lipsa@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jennifer,<div>The file for time step 0 does not have Displacement or other point arrays.</div><div>If I rename time step 0 to vtu_ I can load the rest of the files fine in paraview. This is also reflected in the size of the files. The first one is 17MB, the rest around 40MB.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Dan</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:52 PM Dan Lipsa <<a href="mailto:dan.lipsa@kitware.com" target="_blank">dan.lipsa@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, sure. Send me a link.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:47 PM Jennifer Mary Tarnowski <<a href="mailto:jtarn002@ucr.edu" target="_blank">jtarn002@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dan,<div><br></div><div>The files are output from a finite element model and a file for each time step is ~41 MB. My attachment size limit is 25 MB. Could I share it with you through something like GoogleDrive?</div><div><br></div><div>A cursory glance through the files with a text editor doesn't show any significant differences between the time steps that are good and those that throw the error. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Dan Lipsa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.lipsa@kitware.com" target="_blank">dan.lipsa@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jennifer,<br>It is quite possible that the files for time steps 0-2 specify a certain number of elements in the data array but the data array itself has fewer elements. You can see this by opening the file with a text editor. Can you share the file that produces the error?<div><br><div>So the bug could be in program that writes those files.</div></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:23 PM Jennifer Mary Tarnowski <<a href="mailto:jtarn002@ucr.edu" target="_blank">jtarn002@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'm receiving the following error when I try to visualize data that is saved in 10 time steps. </div><div><br></div><div>
<p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Courier;color:rgb(128,0,0)">ERROR: In /Users/kitware/Dashboards/MyTests/NightlyMaster/ParaViewSuperbuild-Release-Python27/paraview/src/paraview/VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLDataReader.cxx, line 434</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Courier;color:rgb(128,0,0)">vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x7faff494d5c0): Cannot read point data array "Displacement" from PointData in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.</span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Courier;color:rgb(128,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px"> After about the 4th time step, I stop receiving the error and things like displacement, stress, etc. display properly. Is this a bug in ParaView or is there something I need to change in my settings somewhere to allow visualization of the first 3 time steps? <span style="font-family:Courier;color:rgb(128,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Thanks,</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Jennifer</p></div></div>
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