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

[Dan Lipsa]

Not that I know of. We were trying to help a ParaView user so we just
stumbled on this.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Ahh yes I see, the wider usage of field data came after the initial
> implementation which was probably in 1994 :-) so there were probably bugs
> backed into the cake. I don't recall the last time we changed the legacy
> file formats, so I'm curious is this something that is being considered?
> (sorry I missed the discussion)
>
> W
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Will,
>> Yes indeed, we have seen that for VTK Legacy files. What if one has a
>> vtkPolyData (or any of the other dataset types) and that dataset has a
>> field array (besides other point or cell arrays)? It does not seem to be a
>> way to save that dataset as a POLYDATA that includes POINT_DATA, CELL_DATA
>> and the field data.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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