[vtk-developers] Saving fields (arrays not associated with points or cells) in VTK legacy or VTK xml files

David E DeMarle dave.demarle at kitware.com
Fri Aug 14 12:57:17 EDT 2015


We see that will but that doesn't quite fit the bill.

The file format says:
FIELD DATA FILE
or
SPECIFIC DATASET FILE

The former contains ONLY the unaligned FieldData arrays, the later contains
everything EXCEPT the FieldData arrays. The readers and writers agree with
the format.






David E DeMarle
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com
> wrote:

> Dan if memory serves me right there is a Field dataset type that supports
> arbitrary data. Look in the VTK textbook for more information, or see this
> extract:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We had a discussion on the ParaView mailing list with a user trying to
>> save fields (arrays not associated with a point or a cell) in a VTK legacy
>> file. Looking through VTK Users' Guide it seems that there is no documented
>> way to do that (or I cannot see it).
>>
>>
>> http://paraview.markmail.org/search/?q=Schubert%2C%20Raphael#query:Schubert%2C%20Raphael+page:1+mid:5tcph33kduxdnjfh+state:results
>>
>> I filed a bug for this:
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=15653
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>>
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