Thanks for your help and sorry for the mailing list. I will investigate the custom filters to get rid of the visual artefact. I still have your solution. I was just afraid to miss an obvious way to do it. Thanks again for your time. Julien
2010/1/28, Andy Bauer <andy.ba...@kitware.com>: > Please keep the discussions on the mailing list so that others can > contribute and benefit from the information. > > I think the best solution is to create a custom filter that stitches the two > rectilinear grids together in the way you want. Most other solutions will > convert your rectilinear grids to unstructured grids and thus use a lot more > memory. > > Usually when you split a grid into multiple grids you'll get visual > artifacts. > > Andy > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Julien Bodart > <julien.bod...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I am more working on the first option. >> Actually those two files share a single uniform grid, so the space between >> the two blocks is exactly the cell size. (so in this simple case it is >> quite >> huge). The reverse question works as well: >> what happens if I split one single data file (with a rectilinear grid) in >> two files (with no connections), just two subsets and two subgrids, how to >> load them and see a "single grid". >> >> In my case loading the two files gives you all the grid nodes and then all >> the needed information, but it looks like you have two different blocks. >> In a finite volume point of view, maybe it means "adding one cell between >> the two blocks", but if the information is on the nodes like here, nothing >> more is needed. >> >> Your first solution works for me. I mean what you get using these simple >> files is exactly what I want. >> The problem there is the memory consumption (for example on my pc I can >> open two regular files using just 22% of the memory, the MergeBlock >> filters >> goes to 66% and then every action make paraview crash). It looks "the >> brute >> force" for something I was expecting to be just tricky. (no extra nodes >> needed) >> >> I hope it is more descriptive. >> >> >> 2010/1/28 Andy Bauer <andy.ba...@kitware.com> >> >>> I'm still not completely understanding what you want done. Since the two >>> data sets have significant space between them do you want to fill in that >>> space with extra cells or do you want to translate one of the data sets >>> to >>> get rid of the space between? If you want to add in cells then it might >>> be >>> easiest to merge the data sets (GroupDataSet filter and then MergeBlocks >>> filter like below) and then use the vtkDelauney3D filter to create a new >>> grid that keeps the point data. >>> >>> If you want to translate one of the grids to get rid of the space between >>> them you'll need to use something like the CleanToGrid filter to get an >>> unstructured grid from your rectilinear grid. Then you can use the >>> Transform filter to move it to the proper position (in this case >>> -0.10000001489999999 in the z direction for test.2.nc since the >>> vtkCleantoGridFilter is quite finicky). Then use GroupDataSets filter to >>> merge the data sets into a multiblock (right click on the GroupDataSets >>> filter to select one of the test.*.nc files and the the Transform >>> filter). >>> Finally, you'll need to use the vtkCleantoGrid filter again to get the >>> proper connectivity. You'll want to check what it does with the point >>> data >>> at the merged points though. >>> >>> If neither of these is what you want then you'll need to be very >>> descriptive of what you hope to accomplish in order for me to help you >>> any >>> more. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Julien Bodart >>> <julien.bod...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Andy, >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help. >>>> I have attached two simple files I am trying to merge. But looking at >>>> the >>>> problem, I am afraid you will tell me that there is no solution. >>>> As you will see there is no duplicate points, thus Paraview cannot >>>> guess >>>> it. >>>> What is the best way to make them paraview-compliant? Add duplicate >>>> cells? >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Julien >>>> >>>> 2010/1/27 Andy Bauer <andy.ba...@kitware.com> >>>> >>>>> To be clear, I meant first use the group data set filter or merge block >>>>> filter to put all of the cells in the same data set and then use the >>>>> clean >>>>> to grid filter to get rid of duplicate points. Points won't get merged >>>>> if >>>>> they are not within a certain distance from each other. So again the >>>>> real >>>>> problem isn't that all of the cells aren't in the same data set but the >>>>> fact >>>>> that the grid connectivity is not correct. If you are doing this in >>>>> parallel this can also have an affect on appearance due to not having >>>>> the >>>>> correct connectivity between cells on different partitions/processors. >>>>> >>>>> If you can give me a more detailed description of the problem and send >>>>> the grid I can take a closer look at it. >>>>> >>>>> Andy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Julien Bodart < >>>>> julien.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Well, actually I think I tried all the filters, included the clean to >>>>>> grid one. >>>>>> In my case there is actually no duplicate point between files: >>>>>> >>>>>> for example: >>>>>> >>>>>> file-1, z-coord: 0.0,0.1,0.2 >>>>>> file-2, z-coord: 0.3,0.4,0.5 >>>>>> >>>>>> And the grid is structured. >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe in this case there is no way to make a single dataset? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 2010/1/27 Andy Bauer <andy.ba...@kitware.com> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Try using the clean to grid filter. Although all of the cells are in >>>>>>> the same data set (probably an unstructured grid), the filter does >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> realize that there are duplicate points and because of this the grid >>>>>>> connectivity is probably not what you're expecting. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Andy >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Julien Bodart < >>>>>>> julien.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I am new to Paraview, thanks to the new Netcdf Reader of 3.6 >>>>>>>> release. >>>>>>>> (Thank you very much for that) >>>>>>>> Therefore my problem is probably really trivial but I can't get it >>>>>>>> resolved... >>>>>>>> I am reading 2 or more netcdf file describing several part of the >>>>>>>> grid. >>>>>>>> The complete domain is a cube(rectilinear grid), sliced in a given >>>>>>>> number of files. There is no ghost cells so there is no obvious >>>>>>>> match >>>>>>>> between files. >>>>>>>> When I try to merge the different block (using the group dataset >>>>>>>> filter or merge block), I end up with a split domain, leading to a >>>>>>>> visual >>>>>>>> gap between each sub-domain, whether I am plotting contour , >>>>>>>> vertical plane >>>>>>>> or whatever. >>>>>>>> Is there a way to "really" merge those subdomain to end up with a >>>>>>>> single domain. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks in advance! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Julien >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Powered by www.kitware.com >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>>>>>>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >>>>>>>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>>>>>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview