Hi Michael,<br><br>Thanks for your response. That is possible since I have 6 million nodes and 4 million elements. However, I was able to open a file with 1 million nodes and 7 million elements before...<br><br>And I have this new file that's 30k nodes long and 600k elements. It just crashed paraview (quit unexpectedly is the message I got from the Mac OS) without giving any sort of warning. Did that three times...<br>
<br>What could this problem here? (I checked the number of elements, nodes etc and everything seems legit and it's way smaller than what I was able to open...)<br><br>Thanks,<br>Karen<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Stephens, Michael M ERDC-ITL-MS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.M.Stephens@usace.army.mil">Michael.M.Stephens@usace.army.mil</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;">
karen,<br>
<br>
here's a possibility.<br>
i haven't done the math for your number of points/cells; but xml files have<br>
an inherent size limit.<br>
i've seen this error for appended vtk xml files (not ascii as yours are)<br>
<br>
i believe it has to do with the size of the offsets.<br>
it's a limitation of xml itself.<br>
<br>
i've use vtkpython scripts on a 64 bit linux machine to write vtk xml files<br>
that i can't read<br>
with vtk or paraview. which is just wrong.<br>
<br>
i've asked that the xml writers take a look at what's being written<br>
and at least send a warning that the file violates this xml limit.<br>
hasn't happened yet.<br>
<br>
just a thought.<br>
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Subject: [Paraview] error message<br>
<br>
Dear paraview developers and users,<br>
<br>
I got this error when I attempted to open a .vtu file:<br>
<br>
ERROR: In<br>
/Users/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkXMLDataReader.cxx, line<br>
502<br>
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x19373cb0): Cannot read point data array "rho"<br>
from PointData in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.<br>
<br>
<br>
ERROR: In<br>
/Users/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkXMLDataReader.cxx, line<br>
502<br>
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x193f8e00): Cannot read point data array "|E|"<br>
from PointData in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.<br>
<br>
<br>
ERROR: In<br>
/Users/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkXMLDataReader.cxx, line<br>
502<br>
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x19328870): Cannot read point data array "|E|"<br>
from PointData in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.<br>
<br>
<br>
ERROR: In<br>
/Users/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/Servers/Filters/vtkTransferFunctionE<br>
ditorWidgetSimple1D.cxx, line 1246<br>
vtkTransferFunctionEditorWidgetSimple1D (0x178c99d0): Cannot move a transfer<br>
function node horizontally past the ones on either side of it.<br>
<br>
<br>
ERROR: In<br>
/Users/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/Filtering/vtkColorTransferFuncti<br>
on.cxx, line 1105<br>
vtkColorTransferFunction (0x262505d0): Index out of range!<br>
<br>
<br>
ERROR: In<br>
/Users/berk/Work/ReleaseBuilds/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkXMLDataReader.cxx, line<br>
502<br>
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x26251870): Cannot read point data array "rho"<br>
from PointData in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.<br>
<br>
<br>
I guess it's all the same error. I have some working files from before and I<br>
created this file from the same script. I have checked the number of points<br>
and the number of elements literally more than 5 or 6 times, and I have no<br>
idea why it would give me ths kind of error... My file is huge so I won't<br>
sent it, but it looks roughly like this:<br>
<br>
<?xml version="1.0"?><br>
<VTKFile type="UnstructuredGrid"><br>
<UnstructuredGrid><br>
<Piece NumberOfPoints="6225340" NumberOfCells="4980272" ><br>
<Points><br>
<DataArray type="Float32" NumberOfComponents="3"><br>
-0.101 -0.0184 -0.0834<br>
-0.088 -0.05915 -0.1417<br>
-0.050499994 -0.00920002 -0.1417<br>
... x y z coordinates, 6225340 of these numbers in total<br>
</DataArray><br>
</Points><br>
<Cells><br>
<DataArray type="Int32" Name="connectivity"><br>
1 4 7 2<br>
2 1 6 7<br>
2 6 8 7<br>
7 2 4 8<br>
6 2 0 1<br>
.... (lists of elements, 4980272 of these in total, and starting from 0 for<br>
node indexing like I did in the other files that opened fine.)<br>
</DataArray><br>
<DataArray type="Int32" Name="offsets"><br>
4<br>
8<br>
12<br>
..., number of these is 4980272<br>
</DataArray><br>
<DataArray type="UInt8" Name="types"><br>
10<br>
10<br>
10<br>
... (4980272 copies of "10")<br>
</DataArray><br>
</Cells><br>
<PointData Scalars="rho" ><br>
<DataArray type="Float32" Name="rho"><br>
1.2663767364491398E-10<br>
6.45082075320499E-11<br>
... (number of data entries = number of nodes = 6225340)<br>
</DataArray><br>
</PointData><br>
</Piece><br>
</UnstructuredGrid><br>
</VTKFile><br>
<br>
Could the problem be that the file is too large? I'm running on a Macpro with<br>
16 GB's of RAM, and it's a 2 x 2.26GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processor.<br>
<br>
Any help would be greatly appreciated!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Karen<br>
<br>
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