[vtkusers] vtkPLOT3DReader troubles

[Ryan Arthur Vartanian]

Hello-

I am having trouble with vtkPLOT3DReader().

I have looked at the source code for the reader, and as far as I can tell
it does not take into account the bookends (or data record lengths) which
fortran puts at the end of each unformatted write statement.  I use plot3d
on a regular basis and my data files are organized as follows:

Data in file:                     Actual file contents:
                                             4
1      (number of grids)                     1
                                             4
                                             12
193                                          193
49     (Grid Dimensions)                     49
65                                           65
                                             12
                                             7376460
A bunch of single precision floats
follow which are the structured grid
coordinates.

It seems to me that the reader was written using some example files from
plot3d (bluntfin for example) and that for some reason the bookends have
been left out.  Is there a flag I can set so that the bookends are read
and my file is processed correctly, or is this something that has not been
included for some reason?

Any help would be appreciated.

Ryan

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Ryan Vartanian
Aeronautics/Astronautics PhD Student
vartan at leland.stanford.edu
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