[Paraview] netCDF grids and Paraview 3.3.0

[Dominik Szczerba]

Perhaps this?

http://mexcdf.sourceforge.net/

You still need some little compilation with Matlab's mex, but that is 
normally handled by non-techies.

If you are in an academic area the solution would be to get a student to 
do the job for you as a semester project or so. If you are in a 
commercial environment the right way is to hire somebody to write such a 
reader. Depends how big are your datasets, but converting to legacy VTK 
files has very short legs on the longer run.

-- Dominik

Lester Anderson wrote:
>   Hello
>  
> Thanks for the response.
>  
> I am sure it is easy to prepare a reader for the netCDF format, but alas 
> I am not a programmer, and nor do I compile the source code to make 
> Paraview: I just use the executable version.
>  
> I realise that the GMT grid format (netCDF) is a generic format, and is 
> widely used in the geophysics community, so it would be useful to have 
> this format, or a way of getting it into vtk/paraview directly. Is there 
> a windows program that could convert netCDF (GMT grids) to VTK: at 
> present all I have seen is code that needs to be compiled and built to 
> make a custom version of Paraview.
>  
> The only other option I have is to make the grids as CSV format and hope 
> that Paraview can understand this now in the developer version 
> (3.3.0). I primarily work with Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for my work, 
> grid processing and manipulation: it can load XYZ data and build regular 
> grids.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Lester
> 
>  > Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:21:46 +0200
>  > From: domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
>  > To: lester_anderson1963 at hotmail.com
>  > CC: paraview at paraview.org
>  > Subject: Re: [Paraview] netCDF grids and Paraview 3.3.0
>  >
>  > Do you have to store your data in netCDF? I mean, is this a 3rd party
>  > code that forces you to use the format? There are more flexible
>  > solutions than that, in case it is about your own code.
>  >
>  > In any case you are right, converting the files externally to vtk is no
>  > fun. You need to write a plugin reader and that is less difficult than
>  > it appears.
>  >
>  > --Dominik
>  >
>  > Lester Anderson wrote:
>  > > Hello
>  > >
>  > > Just a quick request for the next stable release of Paraview.
>  > >
>  > > I know there are modules for loading/converting netCDF to vtk formats,
>  > > but I would like to see a full implementation of the import in 
> Paraview,
>  > > i.e. we can just read in GMT grids in native netCDF format without any
>  > > reformatting externally.
>  > >
>  > > It would appear that this should be a straightforward option to add -
>  > > hope this gets on the list!
>  > >
>  > > How do others deal with netCDF grids and getting them into Paraview 
> for
>  > > modelling?
>  > >
>  > > Thanks
>  > >
>  > > Lester
>  > >
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Biomedical Simulation Group
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi