[MOAB-dev] h5m format

[Vijay S. Mahadevan]

> Hi all, sorry for sending to this address, but couldn't find the proper
> place to send questions.

John, no need to apologize. This is the right place to send these questions.

> Is there any visualization tool that supports the native Moab mesh format
> (h5m)?

Both Paraview and Visit need to be built from source to visualize the
native h5m MOAB format. There are some instructions in [1] but I'm
unsure if this is outdated since we've not built the plugin on recent
version I think.

Paraview is a bit easier i.e., compile Paraview from source, configure
MOAB using --with-vtk option and install it to a prefix, go to
tools/vtkMOABReader and use the CMake configuration to specify both
PARAVIEW_DIR and MOAB_DIR to compile the plugin. You can then load the
plugin from Paraview and utilize it to natively visualize h5m files.

We are planning to also make this workflow easier in the coming
months. Rajeev, does CMB take care of this right now as it stands ?

Vijay

[1] http://sigma.mcs.anl.gov/moab/visualization-with-moab/

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:09 AM, John Loverich <john.loverich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, sorry for sending to this address, but couldn't find the proper
> place to send questions.
>
> Is there any visualization tool that supports the native Moab mesh format
> (h5m)?  It seems neither Paraview nor VisIt can read this format, though I
> may be mistaken.  On top of that, I'm interested in a standard way to store
> field data for a given Moab mesh.  Though Moab simply defines the mesh,
> suppose I have electric field values stored in a different file linking to
> the mesh file.  Obviously I can use vtk or some other format, but would
> rather use the Moab HDF5 format directly if possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John