[Paraview] Crash on vtr file load

[David E DeMarle]

The data may just be too large for your machine (especially when Clip
produces unstructured grids from your input rectilinear grid data).

Are you using a 32 or 64 bit version of windows XP and how much RAM
does your machine have?  What does View->Statistics inspector (or
alternatively the information tab) say about the memory size, number
of cells and number of arrays in this data set?

If you are exceeding memory, the solution is either to:
1) try more memory thrifty filter alternatives such as Slice or
Extract Subset rather than Clip (see the Best Practices section of the
user guide).
2) connect the client to a parallel paraview server and load the data there.


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias
<Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am rather new to Paraview and have used it so far to view binary vtu files
> generated by the Elmer FEM software.
>
> Now I have received results files generated by SEMCAD. They are in vtr
> format (ASCII) and rather large. The problem is that Paraview crashes
> immediately without error message. I use Paraview 3.12.0 on Win XP. When I
> try it with 3.12.0-RC2, it loads the file, but crashes when I do a "clip"
> and move the section plane. In my despair, I have tried with Visit, which
> seems to load the file, but I cannot view any plot (I must say that this was
> my first attempt to use Visit.
>
> Is there anything I can do to handle those files and/or fidn the reason why
> Paraview crashes? Are there binaries of newer (development) versions of
> Paraview which I could try, where the vtr reader might be more robust?
>
> Thanks for a helpful hint,
>
> Matthias
>
> P.S.: Unfortunately the vtr files are too large (30 MB to 500 MB) to attach
> one of them here.
>
>
>
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