[Paraview] Bug in ExtractBlock?

[Fred Fred]

Hmmm, how do you do it?If I use the Save Data submenu, I am asked to save it as a multi-block dataset and, as expected, I get back a multiblock dataset when I read it again!

> From: dave.demarle at kitware.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 07:20:47 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Bug in ExtractBlock?
> To: utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
> CC: stan1313 at hotmail.fr; paraview at paraview.org
> 
> A work around is to write out the data and read it back in.
> 
> David E DeMarle
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> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Nope, that's expected behavior. ExtractBlock will always still produce
> > a multi-block dataset. Without going too much into details, the
> > requirements of VTK pipeline make it tricky to write a filter that
> > produces a structured data-set from by extracting a block from a input
> > composite dataset.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Fred Fred <stan1313 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I have a dataset that is actually a multi-block with just a single
> >> curvilinear block and I would like to convert it in a simple curvilinear
> >> dataset. I expected that ExtractBlock would make the job, since it is
> >> supposed to delete the umbrella structure when just a single block remains
> >> and the Prune Output option is selected, which is teh default BTW.
> >> But the output is exactly the same as the input.
> >> Bug of the ExtractBlock implementation?
> >> Configuration: ParaView-3.10.1 64 bits Mac OsX Snow Leopard
> >>
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