[Paraview] Error opening specific STL-files on specific computer ("unable to read point")

[Cory Quammen]

Daniel,

I just tried loading the file you attached in the latest development
version of ParaView, and it loaded just fine.

One thing you could try would be to delete your ParaView configuration
files. We're not sure why yet, but this sometimes mysteriously solves
problems. The configuration files on linux are located under
$HOME/.config/ParaView. Try moving the .ini and .json files there to
another location - if removing them solves the problem, I'd like to
see those configuration files to help figure out what the problem is.

Thanks,
Cory

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:00 PM, D L <lackodan at outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been using Paraview for a couple of years now and it's been great.
> However, I've now encountered a weird problem that I cannot solve. A couple
> of years ago, I used VTK (and Python) to automatically segment the skin
> layer surface out of MRI scans. I've always been able to view the resulting
> surface meshes in Paraview and other 3D visualization programs such as
> Meshlab.
>
> I would now like to work with this dataset again, but I cannot get the
> surfaces -which are stored as STL-files- to open on my computer. When I try
> to open them in Paraview (I've tried both 4.1.0 and 5.0.1), I get the
> following error:
>
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/kitware/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-debian6dash-linux-shared-release_opengl2_qt4_superbuild/build/paraview/src/paraview/VTK/IO/Geometry/vtkSTLReader.cxx,
> line 461
> vtkSTLReader (0x41dcc90): STLReader: error while reading file
> /media/daniel/Data/PhyT/Data/ICBM
> surfaces/F/MNI_0111/db_MNI_0111_scalp_final.stl at line 3: unable to read
> point.
>
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/kitware/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-debian6dash-linux-shared-release_opengl2_qt4_superbuild/build/paraview/src/paraview/VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx,
> line 784
> vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0x6045af0): Algorithm
> vtkFileSeriesReader(0x534fef0) returned failure for request: vtkInformation
> (0x4919ff0)
>   Debug: Off
>   Modified Time: 1061902
>   Reference Count: 1
>   Registered Events: (none)
>   Request: REQUEST_DATA
>   FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>   ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>   FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>
>
> When I try to open them in Meshlab, I get an error message about "Premature
> End of file". Other STL-files, however, do open. I'm working on Ubuntu 15.10
> 64-bit. At first I assumed that the STL-files had somehow all gotten
> corrupted, but they open perfectly on a colleague's computer (Paraview 5.0.0
> running on OpenSuse) and on my Windows 8.1 laptop (both in Paraview 5.0.0
> and in Meshlab 1.3.3).
>
> I'm not sure what's wrong. Could anybody please offer some insight?
>
> I've attached an example file to this e-mail.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Daniel
>
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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.