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0012322ParaView(No Category)public2011-06-29 18:592016-08-12 09:58
ReporterAlan Scott 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version4.0 
Target Version5.1Fixed in Version 
ProjectSandia
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Typefeature
Summary0012322: Exodus reader does not deal with attributes, but needs to.
DescriptionThe Exodus reader needs to fully implement attributes. It is half way there, but seems to never have been finished. Attributes are variables that are specific to a block, with no time data. They are basically per cell or point input data to the upstream physics packages that is then passed through. An example would be the thickness of the sheet metal on the blocks representing the skin of a car. As with this example, the engine would not have attributes (the engine has no thickness), but could have other attributes (percent aluminum, or some stress tensor, etc).

ParaView needs to deal with the case where these blocks are split across multiple files, and for files that don't include any cells for a block, there is no attribute data. I have seen cases where the number of attributes is different (but not zero) between blocks.

Please just create a union of all attributes. For blocks that don't have an attribute (for instance an engine and skin thickness), please fill with NaN.

This has already been implemented in EnSight numerous years ago, and is an issue with these people moving to ParaView. See attached screenshot from EnSight. In the attached picture, red is attributes, blue is the underlying color.
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Attached Filespng biplane.png (74,911) 2011-06-29 18:59
https://www.vtk.org/Bug/file/8966/biplane.png
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Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-06-29 18:59Alan ScottNew Issue
2011-06-29 18:59Alan ScottFile Added: biplane.png
2015-06-10 15:24Alan ScottNote Added: 0034534
2015-06-10 15:24Alan ScottTarget Version => 4.5
2015-09-11 16:44Utkarsh AyachitTarget Version4.5 => 5.1
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotNote Added: 0037993
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => closed
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotAssigned To => Kitware Robot

Notes
(0034534)
Alan Scott   
2015-06-10 15:24   
A customer is asking for this again. Lets try for V4.5.
(0037993)
Kitware Robot   
2016-08-12 09:58   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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