[Paraview] XDMF specify geometry with external ascii file

[Chourasia, Amit]

Never mind I could use ORIGIN_DXDYDZ with origin and delta for each axis to accomplish this rather than passing an external file.

-A


On Jan 2, 2014, at 7:02 PM,  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a header XDMF file for uni-grid scalar binary data, which works fine, but when I try to include geometry coordinates using a ASCII file, paraview crashes complaining.
> "Required geometry type is ORIGIN_DX_DY or ORIGIN_DX_DY_DZ. The specified geometry type is : XYZ"
> 
> Searching the mail list it seems possible to include geometry info with external hdf files, is it possible to include an external ascii file "geo.xyz"?
> The geo.xyz file is space separated one tuple per line  of  X Y Z in floating point format, like many examples show for inline xmf file
> Could you provide any tips to overcome this problem. 
> 
> Here is the XDMF header file. Thanks
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
> <Xdmf xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" Version="2.0">
> <Domain>
>    <Grid Name="Mesh" GridType="Uniform">
>        <Topology name="topo" TopologyType="3DCoRectMesh"
>            Dimensions="24 893 394">
>        </Topology>
>        <Geometry name="geo" GeometryType="XYZ">
>            <DataItem Format="XML" Dimensions="8444208 3">
>            geo.xyz
>            </DataItem>
>        </Geometry>
>        <Attribute Name="Density" Center="Cell">
>            <DataItem Format="Binary" 
>             DataType="Float" 
>             Precision="4" 
>             Dimensions="23 892 393">
>               data.dat
>            </DataItem>
>        </Attribute>
>    </Grid>
> </Domain>
> </Xdmf>