[Paraview] Debugging vtp file

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Yes, point coordinates in poly-data always need to be 3 components,
hence the error.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Ramsharan <r.ramsharan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a simple vtp file to draw a 2D triangle.
> ################################################
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <VTKFile type="PolyData" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian">
>         <PolyData>
>                 <Piece NumberOfPoints="3" NumberOfPolys="1">
> <Points>
>                                 <DataArray type="Float32"
> NumberOfComponents="2"
> format="ascii">
> 0.0 0.0
> 1.0 0.0
> 0.0 1.0
>                                </DataArray>
>                         </Points>
>                         <Polys>
>                                 <DataArray type="Int32" Name="connectivity"
> format="ascii">
>                                         0 1 2
>                                 </DataArray>
>                                 <DataArray type="Int32" Name="offsets"
> format="ascii">
>                                          3
>                                 </DataArray>
>                         </Polys>
>                 </Piece>
>         </PolyData>
> </VTKFile>
> #######################
> When I load it with paraview, I get the following message:
> "vtkPoints: Number of components is different... can't set data".
> If however, I change NumberOfComponents to  3 and append a 0 at the end of
> each point's coordinates,
> it works fine.
> Anything I am missing?
> Thanks, Ram.
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