[Paraview] Getting data into Paraview to build 3D volume

[Lester Anderson]

Hello Dominik
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I have seen various variants on the netCDF importer but all require the paraview source code to be compiled, not something I do personally. The problem with netCDF is that you end up dealing with two variants, one which only accepts a single variable like XYZ where z would be say elevation, and in effect you have a 2D layer. The other variant is based on the COARDS convention and allows multiple layers and variables to be built in to netCDF - this is not so easy to construct.
 
It does seem that Paraview is great if you can get your data into a suitable format, otherwise it seems to be a lot of effort. In that respect, I do feel that having more generic import options, and a built in netCDF option, would be a big benefit to users, particularly working in geophysics.