[Paraview] Paraview crashing when clipping an openfoam solution

[Carlos E Manglano-Villamarin]

Joachim,

Quick question about PV >= 5.5 RC1 ... I have downloaded the RC3, how do I
install it? I cannot find any 'make' or 'install' file ... Is it provided
to run "out of the box"?

Regards,
Carlos

2018-03-26 20:36 GMT+02:00 Joachim Pouderoux <joachim.pouderoux at kitware.com>
:

> Carlos,
>
> OpenFOAM can produce cells with non planar faces which is not handled by
> VTK/ParaView. Moreover it appears that current reader implementation can
> also produce incorrect cells when reading wedge cells.
> Thanks to a recent rewriting of the polydron clipping algorithm, the
> clipping/slicing of polyhedron should no more lead to crashes. However,the
> problems
> of non planar faces might produce some holes in the result.
> We are currently working on a patch to better handle this case in the
> reader.
> If you want to try the new polyhedron  clipping algorithm, you will have
> to use ParaView >= 5.5 RC1.
>
> Best regards,
> Joachim
>
>
> *Joachim Pouderoux*, PhD
>
> *Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team*
> *Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>*
>
>
> 2018-03-26 14:29 GMT-04:00 Carlos E Manglano-Villamarin <
> carlosemanglanov at gmail.com>:
>
>> It's me again, I'm sorry,
>>
>> Problem NOT solved!!! ... Hardware looks ok, software and system handling
>> memory looks good too.
>>
>> ParaView shuts down if I try to generate a clip with the "VTK Polyhedron"
>> option selected, before and after clipping ...
>>
>> possible bug??
>>
>> C.
>>
>> 2018-03-26 16:51 GMT+02:00 Shawn Waldon <shawn.waldon at kitware.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Carlos,
>>>
>>> That error message means that an exception was thrown from a Qt event
>>> handler.  The message about reimplementing QApplication::notify() is just
>>> to tell you how to catch the exception if you wanted to.  The real problem
>>> is the exception.
>>>
>>> A std::bad_alloc exception happens when the program tries to allocate
>>> memory and fails.  So you need to figure out why you are running out of
>>> memory (that is the most likely cause of the error).
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Shawn
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Carlos E Manglano-Villamarin <
>>> carlosemanglanov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>>
>>>> When I postprocess some simulations, less than 900,000 cells, from
>>>> openfoam, either opening paraview directly or using the parafoam tool, the
>>>> program crashes giving me the following error message:
>>>>
>>>> I/O    : uncollated
>>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>>>>   what():  std::bad_alloc
>>>> Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing
>>>> exceptions from an event handler is not supported in Qt. You must
>>>> reimplement QApplication::notify() and catch all exceptions there.
>>>>
>>>> My OS is Ubuntu 16.04, freshly installed. I was getting the same error
>>>> with Ubuntu 17.10 which I had installed until last night.
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for info about "reimplementing QApplication" with no luck.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions, please?
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
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