[FLASH-USERS] Problem using VisIt

[Norbert Flocke]

Hello Miguel,

Is the ed_useLaserIO parameter in your flash.par file set to .true.?
If it is .false., then the ray tracing package does not write out the 
rays, which seems what is happening.

Norbert


On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Miguel Vasconcelos wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm a new user of FLASH and I'm having trouble viewing the Full-physics Laser Driven Simulation in VisIt.
> The User Support says that is necessary to convert the output to the format .vtk using the extract_rays.py script so that Visit will be able to understand the data. But when I try to do that the following error occurs:
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./extract_rays.py", line 159, in <module>
> write_vtk(fn)
> File "./extract_rays.py", line 32, in write_vtk
> wl = t.getWhereList("name == n")
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tables/_past.py", line 35, in oldfunc
> return obj(*args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tables/table.py", line 1634, in get_where_list
> self._where(condition, condvars, start, stop, step)]
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tables/table.py", line 1527, in _where
> condvars = self._required_expr_vars(condition, condvars, depth=3)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tables/table.py", line 1259, in _required_expr_vars
> raise NameError("name ``%s`` is not defined" % var)
> NameError: name ``n`` is not defined
> Closing remaining open files:../..//object/lasslab_hdf5_plt_cnt_0000...done
>
>
> If anybody knows how to solve this issue, please let me know.
>
>
> Miguel Vasconcelos
>