[vtkusers] writing EnSight files - Error: No BlockID was found

[Martin Baumann]

Did anyone of you write EnSight files and did not have problems with 
BlockID?

Regards, M.B.



Martin Baumann schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to save EnSight data files with the following code:
>
>  string in_file  = "test.asc";
>  string out_file = "ensight.ens";
>
>  /// **********************************************/
>  /// read Legacy-Format variables/
>  /// **********************************************/
>
>  vtkUnstructuredGridReader* _reader = vtkUnstructuredGridReader::New();
>  _reader->SetFileName(in_file.c_str());
>  _reader->Update();
>
>
>  /// **********************************************/
>  /// write EnSight/
>  /// **********************************************/
>
>  vtkEnSightWriter* _ens_writer = vtkEnSightWriter::New();
>
>  _ens_writer->SetFileName(out_file.c_str());
>  _ens_writer->SetInput(_reader->GetOutput());
>  _ens_writer->Write();
>  _ens_writer->WriteCaseFile(1);
>  
>
>
> When I run this I get the error
>   No BlockID was found
> for some some hundred times.
>
> Still threee files are created:
>   ensight.0.case
>   ensight.0.00000.geo
>   ensight.0.00000_n.u_x
>
> - I tried to find out what the error means. What are BlockIDs used for?
> - Is there any information on writing EnSight files with vtk?
> - In the example file (test.asc) there are contained three scalars: 
> u_x, u_y and u_z.
> Only one (u_x) is written to an EnSight data file. I need to export 
> all of the
> scalars and vectors if there are any in the input file. How can I do this?
>
> Regards, M.B.
>
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