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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:58:11PM +0100, pedro wrote:
> i'm trying to read a .vtu file (e.g. temperature000001.vtu from 
> convection-diffusion example) in mayavi (version 1.5-4) but i'm getting 
> the error message:
> 
> Exception: 
> /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/mayavi/Sources/VtkDataReader.py: 49: 
> ParseException: Unknown data type: Known data types are: 
> UNSTRUCTURED_GRID, STRUCTURED_GRID, STRUCTURED_POINTS...
> 
> going to file VtkDataReader.py, supported data files are defined within 
> the list:
> 
> supported = ["UNSTRUCTURED_GRID", "STRUCTURED_GRID",
>                  "STRUCTURED_POINTS", "RECTILINEAR_GRID", "POLYDATA" ]
> 
> changing the header from: ...UnstructuredGrid to UNSTRUCTURED_GRID (or 
> other trialled variants), the file opens but nothing shows and a console 
> error message appears, apparently in a internal "afterPy" vtk routine:
> 
> ERROR: In /build/buildd/vtk-5.0.3/IO/vtkDataReader.cxx, line 432
> vtkUnstructuredGridReader (0x86ba690): Unrecognized file type: 
> <UNSTRUCTURED_GRI                           D> for file: 
> /home/pedro/Desktop/convection-diffusion_test/temperature000001.vtu 
> 
> mayavi version problem or something else?
> 
> ps: can't get paraview working (missing Qt4.2, only Qt4.3 available)
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I also have Mayavi 1.5-4 and it works fine.

Start Mayavi, then click File -> Open -> VTK XML File. Select *.vtu
and then click the VTU file.

The tricky part is to select VTK XML format and then change the suffix
filter to *.vtu.

-- 
Anders