[Gmsh] VTK writer bug

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Thu Oct 9 08:19:58 CEST 2008


prw at ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
> In GModel::writeVTK, I think the number of elements is not counted 
> correctly. I have found that numElements includes "elements" (in fact 
> vertices) for which getTypeForVTK() is zero and which therefore are not 
> written. VTK's vtkUnstructuredGridReader objects to this when reading 
> CELLS or CELL_TYPES, since the number of lines following is less than 
> the count.
> 
> The count should be calculated as in the attached patch.

Thanks! This is now fixed in CVS. Binary output should now also work, as 
should a basic VTK format reader.

> 
> Peter Wainwright
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