[Paraview] Load state error with MPAS Ocean NetCDFReader data type

[Andy Bauer]

Hi Phillip,

I have good news and bad news for this. The good news is that I have a fix
for the issue. The bad news is that the bug was in the reader itself so, as
far as I know, there's no way to save the state for this properly in
ParaView 4.1 and earlier. In case you want to patch vtkMPASReader.cxx
yourself, I attached it to the email.

I think the next release of ParaView should be along in 2 or 3 months. If
you're hoping for a solution faster than that we may be able to cook up a
Python script to help automate the process. Just let us know.

Regards,
Andy

ps. Note that I removed the MPAS developers mailing list from this and
added the MPAS users mailing list. I'm not sure if it will make it to the
MPAS users mailing list since I don't think I've been added to that though.


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Wolfram, Phillip J <pwolfram at lanl.gov>wrote:

>  Dear Paraview Mailing list,
>
>  I am a developer on the MPAS-Ocean project and we are having trouble
> with saved states in Paraview corresponding to loading the netcdf (*.nc)
> data file, loading and plotting a variable (say kineticEnergyCell), saving
> the state as a psvm file, and then reloading it.  At a minimum, the plotted
> quantity is not accessible and it doesn't appear that the data structure
> for MPAS-O is reloaded properly.  This is the simplest reproducible error.
>  John and Boonth (cc'd) recommended I email this list with this issue.
>
>  A link to the files for debugging/ testing is
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/b4a0b056ks3i30r/mpaso_paraview.tgz.
>
>  A work-around is to simply save the variables of interest as
>  unstructured vtku files, but this is an imperfect solution (if only
> because multiple vtku files in time then become required).  If vtku files
> are utilized there is no problem with the save/load state function.
>
>  My present configuration is ParaView 4.1.0 64-bit for mac via the dmg
> installer (ParaView-4.1.0-Darwin-64bit.dmg).
>
>  Thanks for taking a look at this and please let me know if you have
> additional questions,
>
>  Phillip
>
> Phillip Wolfram
> (505) 667-7744
>
>  Postdoc Research Associate
> Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> T-3, MS-B216
>  P.O. Box 1663
> Los Alamos, NM 87545
>
>
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