[vtkusers] write 2D mesh to ExodusII

[Adrian Croucher]

hi,

I am writing a 2D mesh to an ExodusII file using vtkExodusIIWriter (in 
Python).  I'm using VTK 5.8.

The ExodusII file has a 'dimension' property which appears to be set to 
3 by default. I would like to be able to set this to 2 for 2D meshes. 
Otherwise it doesn't read in properly in other applications (e.g. PETSc).

 From reading the C++ documentation for vtkExodusIIWriter it looks like 
there is a SetModelMetadata() method which takes a vtkModelMetadata 
object as argument. This object in turn has a SetCoordinateNames() 
method which takes an integer dimension parameter and an array of 
coordinate names.

However in Python this method doesn't seem to be exposed- I get an 
AttributeError when I try to use it. I also get a segfault when I try to 
use the SetModelMetadata() method (maybe because the vtkModelMetadata 
object isn't set up right).

Not sure if I'm on the right track here, or if there is some other way 
to achieve what I want?

Regards, Adrian

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Dr Adrian Croucher
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Department of Engineering Science
University of Auckland, New Zealand
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