[Paraview] Shapefiles?

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Hi Mark,

vtkGDALVectorReader has been in the ParaView source tree for quite a
while. You however have to explicitly turn on the reader by CMake
configuration (Module_vtkIOGDAL) and build ParaView with
GDAL. Furthermore, you need to write a simple XML plugin and load it
to expose the reader to the ParaView GUI. If it works, you can use
GDALVectorReaderSM.xml in the vtkgis_vector_reader repository instead.

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: "Vanmoer, Mark W" <mvanmoer at illinois.edu>
Subject: [Paraview] Shapefiles?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:57:15 +0000

> Hi ParaView,
> 
> I found this thread: www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2012-December/027026.html<http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2012-December/027026.html> indicating vtkGDALVectorReader would be added to mainline ParaView, and I do see an option load DEMs, but are ESRI ShapeFiles supported? I can't get any .shp files to be recognized or load.
> 
> There's an earlier thread from 2011 discussing vtkgis_vector_reader, is that still the recommended ShapeFile loader?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark