[Paraview] [Non-DoD Source] Questions about XMF - 3DCoRectMesh

[Armin Wehrfritz]

This is apparently a "very very old bug" [1] and pops up every now and
then on this mailing-list. There was apparently a plan to fix this back
in 2009 [2], but I'm doubtful that this was done.

[1] http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2014-September/032263.html
[2] http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2009-May/012278.html

-Armin






On 09/09/2016 05:15 PM, Burns, Andrew J CTR USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote:
> We noticed this also, I believe the plan is to remove the flipping of dimension ordering. However, I am unsure on when that will occur.
>
> Andrew Burns
> Software Engineer | Leidos
> Phone: 410-306-0409
> ARL DSRC
> andrew.j.burns35.ctr at mail.mil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Lúcio Corrêa
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 9:29 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Non-DoD Source] [Paraview] Questions about XMF - 3DCoRectMesh
>
> Hi everbody,
>
> I have a stupid question about the XMF - 3DCoRectMesh...
>
> I tried to build an "extruded rectangle" using this function (I attached the files).
>
> I asked for a 6 by 16 by 46 elements as you can see in the XMF file...
>
>      <Topology TopologyType="3DCoRectMesh" Dimensions="7 17 47"/>
>      <Geometry GeometryType="ORIGIN_DXDYDZ">
>    <DataItem Name="origin" Format="XML" DataType="Float" Precision="8" Dimensions="3">
>              -0.6000000000
>              -1.6000000000
>              -4.6000000000
>
> but when I open in Paraview (4.3.1 and 5.1.2) I found a 46 by 16 by 6 elements...
>
> I tried also to look in: VTK/ThirdParty/xdmf3/vtkxdmf3/XdmfRegularGrid.cpp, but I didn't found the reason to Paraview "change" the X axis by the Z axis.
>
> Someone found the same thing? Or, where I made a mistake?
>
> Regards,
>