[Paraview] Legacy VTK Format

Chad Glendenin chad at uchicago.edu
Tue Jun 27 19:54:28 EDT 2006


It looks like your VTK header is wrong, and that's why ParaView is  
not detecting the file as a VTK file and why it's crashing when you  
try to use that reader. The header should look more like this:

# vtk DataFile Version 2.0
unstructured_grid example
ASCII
DATASET UNSTRUCTURED_GRID

ccg

On Jun 27, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Kush Tandon wrote:

> Hi Amy and others,
>
> I made a very simple tutorial like legacy VTK format file for an  
> unstructured grid. Please find it attached.  Our final goal is to  
> get unstructured, tetrahedron grids with time varying scalars and  
> vectors. I used file_format.pdf as guide.
>
> When I try to read it using "Legacy Files Reader", the program  
> ParaView crashes on me. Please advise. It is a small file and if  
> one of you could look where it could be wrong.
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kush
>
> <valid1.vtk>
>
> Kush Tandon
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