[Paraview] paraview won't read plot3D files

[Berk Geveci]

Hey Rick,

Can you post the header part of an ASCII Plot3D file that you have?
ParaView reads only one flavor of Plot3D so I want to make sure that
that is what you have.

-berk

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Rick Burnes <rick.burnes at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have also generated an ASCII plot3D file, which I can get paraview to
> read.  However, paraview does not correctly interpret the grid file.  The
> geometry I create with my simple Fortran code is a cube.  Paraview
> successfully reads both the ASCII grid and data files, but when I view it in
> paraview the geometry is incorrect.  Tecplot does not have this problem with
> the same grid and data files.  I am interested in any suggestions on the
> right combination of options to choose when reading this plot3D file into
> paraview, but I have not been able to find the correct combination of
> options to read a plot3D binary grid and data file.  In addition, since
> paraview does not display the correct geometry when I have it read an ASCII
> version of the same grid and data plot3D files I believe there is more to
> this than just choosing the right options.
> There are a number of different plot3D formats and I have tried reading a
> number of these into paraview, all with the same results.
> Sincerely,
> Rick
>
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:26 PM, da wrote:
>
> Have you tried generating an ascii file from Fortran and looking at it? I
> don't believe there should be a difference whether its generated from
> Fortran or C/C++ code.
> Tecplot's reader automatically detects the options of the plot3d file -
> while Paraview does not: its most likely the case that an option is set
> incorrectly.
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Rick Burnes <rick.burnes at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>
>> Paraview appears to have a limited ability certain plot3D files that were
>> likely generated from C/C++ code, but is unable to read plot3D files
>> generated from Fortran code.  When I open a Fortran generated plot3D file I
>> select "plot3D" as the file type and then select the following three
>> options: "binary file", "has byte count" and if needed "multigrid".  I have
>> tried various combinations of these options without success.  I wrote a
>> short and simple Fortran program to generate a small test plot3D grid file
>> and data file, which I can successfully read with tecplot, but is not
>> readable in paraview 3.6.1.  Has anyone had success reading Fortran
>> generated plot3D files with a recent version of paraview and if so, what
>> plot3D format was used and what paraview file options were selected?
>>
>> This is for paraview 3.6.1 on a mac running leopard.  However, I run into
>> the same problem on the windows version of paraview as well.
>>
>> Here is the error message I receive:
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> /Users/kitware/ParaViewReleases/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader.cxx,
>> line 783
>> vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader (0x223c4620): Error reading geometry file.
>>
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> /Users/kitware/ParaViewReleases/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx,
>> line 757
>> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x223c4590): Algorithm
>> vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader(0x223c4620) returned failure for request:
>> vtkInformation (0x2245e940)
>>  Debug: Off
>>  Modified Time: 79689
>>  Reference Count: 1
>>  Registered Events: (none)
>>  Request: REQUEST_DATA
>>  FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>>  ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>>  FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>>
>> Also, are there any plans to improve paraview's ability to read plot3D
>> files?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Rick
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