[petsc-users] Paraview 3.x

[Jed Brown]

Sanjay Kharche <Sanjay.Kharche at manchester.ac.uk> writes:
> When I load the 3D vts structured grid (output from my 3D petsc based
> program) into paraview 3.4, I do not get an option to render
> volume. There are no error messages. The best I can do is get an
> isosurface or threshold the data. 

Sounds like Håkon's diagnosis is correct.  For regular spacing, you
could use .vtr instead of .vts, though it might not change this
limitation of Paraview-3.4.

> When I used paraview 4.3.1 distro binary, I can viz it but the
> controls are different. I spend some time getting familiar with the
> controls yesterday. My pvbatch scripts are going to be remade if I am
> to go down the 4.3.1 route. Another fix I implemented is that to do a
> binary output, and then post-process so that my current set up of
> paraview/vtk still works.

I recommend upgrading.
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