[Paraview] Paraview 3.6.1 and netCDF 4

[Moreland, Kenneth]

There is an example netCDF file that comes with the VTK test data.  It is identical to the one from here:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/examples/tos_O1_2001-2002.nc

On retrospect, I'm not sure that the netCDF that comes with ParaView is version 4.  We may need to update it.

-Ken


On 11/12/09 3:36 PM, "Matthew Dillon" <mrdillon at alaska.edu> wrote:

Ken,

Thanks for the reply. I have tested with both *.nc and *.ncdf, with no luck on the netCDF reader showing up on the list. I generated the netCDF file using the netcdf4-python (http://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/) interface, using the NETCDF4 and NETCDF3-CLASSIC filetypes. Both types show coherent output when using the netCDF viewer "ncdump." I checked the Paraview Dataset file to see if there were any netCDF files, and did not come across any. I did however see there were *.h5 (hdf5) files. The documentation states that these should have a viewer as well, but when I opened one of these files, I was presented with the same reader list as before, with no mention to an hdf5 reader.

Matthew

On Nov 12, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

ParaView first uses extensions to determine file type.  Files with extension .nc or .ncdf are assumed to be netCDF files.  If you are using another extension it should still work so long as the extension does not conflict with any other extension used.  If no file extension matches you should get a dialog box asking you what type of reader to use.  If the file is detected as a valid netCDF file, it should show up in that list.

-Ken


On 11/12/09 1:56 PM, "Matthew Dillon" <mrdillon at alaska.edu <x-msg://36/mrdillon@alaska.edu> > wrote:

Hi all, I have a question. I have been using VTK for some time now,
and have recently been focusing my efforts on Paraview. I am running
into a problem though. I am trying to import netCDF volume data. I am
able to import the file using the raw binary filter, which works quite
well, however, when I try to import a netCDF file with compressed
variables, this approach does not work. Glancing through the
documentation, it appears that the is a netCDF reader built in,
however it doesn't look like my file is being associated with the
netCDF reader when opening. A little about my setup: Mac OS X 10.6.1,
Paraview 3.6.1 binary, netCDF 4.0.1. Any help on this would be really
appreciated. Thanks!

Matthew Dillon
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