[Paraview] Cannot Read Binary Unstr Legacy VTK with 2.4.2

[Dominik Szczerba]

I am succesful reading legacy binary unstructured files in PV 2.4.2.
Your error looks like some n.elem. is not set right. Send me an example
file.
DS

Kent Eschenberg wrote:
> ParaView 2.4.2 crashes when it reads a file using the VTK legacy binary
> format for an unstructured grid. In my test case there is one hexahedron
> and no data. A similar file in ASCII works fine. The error:
> 
> "There was a VTK Error in file: .../VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx
> (105)
> vtkDoubleArray (0xd11fff8): Unable to allocate 402653184 elements of
> size 8: St9bad_alloc"
> 
> I'm working from the document "File Formats for VTK Version 4.2" from
> the Kitware site. ParaView and the C program writing the binary VTK file
> were compiled on my Pentium 4 system using gcc 4.0.2. The system runs
> Redhat Fedora Core 4.
> 
> The binary data is written to the file directly from memory, i.e., it is
> in this system's native format. Is that what VTK and ParaView expect?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Kent
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
> 
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