HDF5 is supported through the Xdmf format. You can understand Xdmf format as a kind of format descriptor for HDF5 files. In HDF5 format you can store data in several different ways, in this sense, Xdmf is just a XML file pointing to where the data actually is inside HDF5 file (or files). Moreover, the fastest way to get your HDF5 files loaded by ParaView is
simply writing a couple of Xdmf ASCII lines. You don't need to
download, compile and install any library. For a first try, I'd suggest you simply writing
the file manually using a text editor. <br><br>Take a look in some examples provided by Kitware and I'm sure you'll easily understand what I'm talking about.<br><br><br>Regards<br><br>Renato.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Michael Jackson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.jackson@bluequartz.net">mike.jackson@bluequartz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The HDF5 library is in there because of the Xdmf library that is also used. I don't think there are direct HDF5 readers for paraview. You can format your HDF5 data into Xdmf files and you may have better luck or you can write a custom reader for your data.<br>
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On Apr 21, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Nicholas Yue wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I downloaded the precompiled version of Paraview 3.4 recently from<br>
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<a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.4/paraview-3.4.0-Linux64-x86.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.4/paraview-3.4.0-Linux64-x86.tar.gz</a><br>
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Doing a bit of google search, it seems that HDF5 has been supported since paraview 3.3<br>
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When I tried to open HDF5, the drop downlist does not have HDF5 as a known file type?<br>
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I can see libvtkhdf5.so in the lib directory so I am not sure what the problem is. I have added that path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH too.<br>
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