[Paraview] netcdf-4

David E DeMarle dave.demarle at kitware.com
Wed Aug 6 08:24:08 EDT 2014


Great!

I'll get in contact with the ubuntu manager and help him or her enable it
there too.


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


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Matthias Wiesenberger <
Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.ac.at> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> that helped a lot, thanks very much. I downloaded v4.1 from the paraview
> site and it opens netcdf-4 as you describe.
>
> thanks again
> Matthias
>
>
> On 08/05/2014 08:32 PM, David E DeMarle wrote:
>
>> In a fresh build of paraview master on a mac, I can read this file
>> without a problem. When I go to open the file I'm given a choice of "CAM
>> NetCDF (Unstructured)" or "NetCDF files generic and CF conventions".
>> Choose netcdf cf and, accept defaults and hit apply and I see the data,
>> curvilinear with 72/91 cells and points and two cell aligned float
>> arrays, pressure and temperature.
>>
>> It is possible to turn OFF support for netcdf4 if VTK_USE_SYSTEM_HDF5 on
>> and HDF5_HL is off that will happen. I am guessing that is what is going
>> on here in ubuntu's ParaView package.
>>
>> You can:
>>   try a nightly build from the kitware download site
>>   ask the ubuntu packager to turn it on in the future
>>   build paraview yourself from source
>>
>> hth
>>
>>
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Matthias Wiesenberger
>> <Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.ac.at
>> <mailto:Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.ac.at>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi, my paraview is version 4.01 64-bit. I attached a sample file for
>>     you. It's generated from one of the netcdf example codes modified
>>     only by the additional creation flag NC_NETCDF4.
>>     Matthias
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 08/04/2014 05:21 PM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
>>
>>         also, it will help if you can share your data (sample one) with
>> us.
>>
>>         - Aashish
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:10 AM, David E DeMarle
>>         <dave.demarle at kitware.com <mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>>         <mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.__com
>>
>>         <mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>              Which version of ParaView does ubuntu provide?
>>
>>              True netcdf4 support first appeared in 3.98 as I recall.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>              David E DeMarle
>>              Kitware, Inc.
>>              R&D Engineer
>>              21 Corporate Drive
>>              Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>              Phone: 518-881-4909 <tel:518-881-4909> <tel:518-881-4909
>>
>>         <tel:518-881-4909>>
>>
>>
>>
>>              On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Wiesenberger, Matthias
>>              <Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.__ac.at
>>         <mailto:Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.ac.at>
>>              <mailto:Matthias.Wiesenberger at __uibk.ac.at
>>
>>         <mailto:Matthias.Wiesenberger at uibk.ac.at>>> wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi,
>>                  I downloaded and installed paraview via my ubuntu package
>>                  manager.  I then generated some data with my code using a
>>                  freshly installed netcdf library. Paraview can read and
>>                  visualize that data without complaints. However, I now
>>         want to
>>                  make use of the parallel I/O features that the new
>> netcdf-4
>>                  (enhanced) data model (sometimes called Common Data
>> Model)
>>                  proviedes. The thing is that paraview obviously can't
>>         read the
>>                  new file format. Every time I want to read data in the
>> new
>>                  netcdf4/HDF5 data model I get to a list of readers to
>>         choose
>>                  from. I've been trying to find a solution for that for
>> some
>>                  while now, but I'm at a total loss, is there a hidden
>>         option
>>                  somewhere? Should I reinstall paraview? I can also
>>         promise not
>>                  to use any nasty HDF5 features in my files like groups
>>         or new
>>                  fancy datatypes (there is creation flag for this
>>                  NC_CLASSIC_MODEL) i.e. use the old data model but the
>>         new format
>>                  if that helps.
>>                  Can you help me with this?
>>                  Best
>>                  Matthias
>>
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