[Paraview] VTK-file written by ParaView cannot be read by ParaView

[Sebastien Jourdain]

There is no multi-block legacy format. What file extension did you try to
write ? It should be .vtm by default.



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ian Krukow <i.krukow at tu-braunschweig.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have loaded an EnSight file (results from an external code) into
> ParaView, taken a slice from it and saved it in Legacy VTK format. The
> result is a VTK file with multiblock datasets. When I try to load it again,
> ParaView does not recognise the file format and asks me to choose a reader.
> Why does ParaView not know the format of a file, that it has written itself?
>
> The written VTK file contains several "CHILDREN" with part of the data (I
> suppose that it is just divided) plus several empty CHILDREN. If I put the
> data of a single CHILD into a seperate file, I can load it into ParaView
> without any problems.
> Now, I could manipulate the file "by hand" (or script), so that I get a
> file I can use again in ParaView, but I just do not think, that this is the
> way it is supposed to be. Can somebody help me?
>
> Best regards
> Ian
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