Have you tried generating an ascii file from Fortran and looking at it? I don't believe there should be a difference whether its generated from Fortran or C/C++ code.<div><br></div><div>Tecplot's reader automatically detects the options of the plot3d file - while Paraview does not: its most likely the case that an option is set incorrectly. <br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Rick Burnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.burnes@mchsi.com">rick.burnes@mchsi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Paraview appears to have a limited ability certain plot3D files that were likely generated from C/C++ code, but is unable to read plot3D files generated from Fortran code. When I open a Fortran generated plot3D file I select "plot3D" as the file type and then select the following three options: "binary file", "has byte count" and if needed "multigrid". I have tried various combinations of these options without success. I wrote a short and simple Fortran program to generate a small test plot3D grid file and data file, which I can successfully read with tecplot, but is not readable in paraview 3.6.1. Has anyone had success reading Fortran generated plot3D files with a recent version of paraview and if so, what plot3D format was used and what paraview file options were selected?<br>
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This is for paraview 3.6.1 on a mac running leopard. However, I run into the same problem on the windows version of paraview as well.<br>
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Here is the error message I receive:<br>
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ERROR: In /Users/kitware/ParaViewReleases/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader.cxx, line 783<br>
vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader (0x223c4620): Error reading geometry file.<br>
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ERROR: In /Users/kitware/ParaViewReleases/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 757<br>
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x223c4590): Algorithm vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader(0x223c4620) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x2245e940)<br>
Debug: Off<br>
Modified Time: 79689<br>
Reference Count: 1<br>
Registered Events: (none)<br>
Request: REQUEST_DATA<br>
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0<br>
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1<br>
FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0<br>
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Also, are there any plans to improve paraview's ability to read plot3D files?<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Rick<br>
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