[Paraview] Problem using Generate Surface Normals

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

More likely than not, your vtkTestReader::RequestData() returned a
'0'. You might want to put a break point in
vtkTestReader::RequestData() and see why it's returning a 0.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Adriano Gagliardi
<agagliardi at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have a custom reader that works fine and loads mesh and data in as I
> require. However, when I try to execute 'Generate Surface Normals' on it, I
> get the error below. The process I am following is:
>
> -> Read in mesh and data(multi-block data-set, vtkUnstructuredGrid stored in
> each block)
> -> Extract blocks
> -> Extract surface (outputs vtkPolyData)
> -> Generate Surface Normals
> -> Error message
>
> ERROR: In /usr/Paraview/ParaView3/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 757
> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x8135e40): Algorithm vtkTestReader(0x7ecf280)
> returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x1c9cf730)
>  Debug: Off
>  Modified Time: 369530
>  Reference Count: 1
>  Registered Events: (none)
>  Request: REQUEST_DATA
>  FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>  ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>  FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>
> Notably, after this happens the data in the entire pipeline is messed up.
> Can someone point me to something that may be missing in my reader?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adriano
>
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