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-Ken<BR>
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On 5/7/09 12:55 AM, "John Biddiscombe" <<a href="biddisco@cscs.ch">biddisco@cscs.ch</a>> wrote:<BR>
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The exodus reader is no doubt exporting multiblock data, so the<BR>
SafeDownCast will fail. Add an extra test for Multiblock and then use an<BR>
iterator to loop over blocks and then safedowncast and do what you need<BR>
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JB<BR>
> Hi,<BR>
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> Is there a way to make the Append DataSet Filter work with exodus files?<BR>
> I have several that I want to append to use the calculator on.<BR>
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> I tried modifying the source to create a plugin<BR>
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> VTK/Graphics/vtkAppendFilter.cxx<BR>
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> but I always seem to be getting a null pointer from the SafeDownCast?<BR>
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> vtkInformation *inInfo = inputVector[0]->GetInformationObject(idx);<BR>
> vtkDataSet *ds<BR>
> vtkDataSet::SafeDownCast(inInfo->Get(vtkDataObject::DATA_OBJECT()));<BR>
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> thank you,<BR>
> David Fuentes<BR>
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