Seacas issue again? Nalu nodal output failing again in Paraview

[spdomin]

Nalu output and visualization is again broken - and it looks like a previous Seacas issue, @gsjaardema and/or @alanw0 👍

( 14.588s) [paraview ] vtkIOSSReader.cxx:458 ERR| Error reading entity block (or set) named 'block_1' from '/home/spdomin/myFile.e.4.0 skipping. Details: ERROR: Could not find field 'velocityx'

I am guessing this is due to that last Seacas snapshot that caused other issues?

[spdomin]

I think that this looks correct?

char coor_names(num_dim, len_name) ;
	coor_names:Field@velocity@type = 8 ;
	coor_names:Field@velocity_fa_one@type = 8 ;

[spdomin]

Subject: Problem with output and viz in Paraview

Greetings,

I recently noticed (today) that in Paraview 5.13.0, I am not able to load in vector-based STK fields in addition to generic fields of a given length. However, in the previous Paraview release, I am able to viz all fields without issue. It is not clear to me if this is a STK or Paraview issue. I say this since Ensight is also acting strange in that the vector fields are not being loaded in automatically.

I see the following type of errors in Paraview:

( 85.251s) [paraview ] vtkIOSSReader.cxx:458 ERR| Error reading entity block (or set) named 'block_1' from '/home/spdomin/gitHubWork/naluAnalysis/asc_pem/3dFuelSpillNoEvap/output/3dFuelSpillNoEvap.e.15.16'; skipping. Details: ERROR: Could not find field 'velocityx'

[spdomin]

Adding this for future reference:

• Setting through environment variables on the command line via: export OUTPUT_FIELD_METADATA=NO
• Programatically via: stkIoBroker.property_add(Ioss::Property("OUTPUT_FIELD_METADATA ", "NO"));

[gsjaardema]

Modifying the previous future reference comment: To set the IOSS properties via an environment variable, the syntax would be:

export IOSS_PROPERTIES="OUTPUT_FIELD_METADATA=NO"

See https://sandialabs.github.io/seacas-docs/ioss_html/index.html#properties. The use of an environment variable is near the bottom of that page.

[gsjaardema]

@spdomin If you still have any of the files which were failing on ParaView, could you send me a copy to help debug the issue. Thanks.