[Paraview] Debugging Why STL file will not load

Robert Maynard robert.maynard at kitware.com
Mon May 30 10:38:09 EDT 2011


Excellent, I was just going to look at why the file was failing :)

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michael Jackson <
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:

> Figured it out. The issue was obviously in my writer. I was not offsetting
> into the file correctly to write the data which lead ParaView to basically
> just read junk data would be my guess and could not interpret it.
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
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>
>
> On May 30, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Robert Maynard wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The current STL reader has no debug information to tell you why it failed
> to read a file. If you are able to send me the file I can look into why the
> reader fails.
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Michael Jackson <
> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> > I am creating an STL Binary file from another program. I am then trying
> to load it in ParaView. ParaView seems to recognize the STL file but after I
> load it nothing appears. I click on the "Information" tab and it says
> Polygonal Mesh but 0 cells and 0 points. There are no error messages or
> anything else. Is there something I can enable to try and figure out why
> nothing is showing up or the read is failing?
> >
> > Thanks
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> > Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> > BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
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