[GPlates-discuss] FW: error upon importing a 3D scalar field

[Oliver Strimpel]

John,

You correctly identified the problem and it works fine now.  Many thanks!

Oliver

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:47 AM, John Cannon <john.cannon at sydney.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hi Oliver,
>
> Try importing to a different location. I think the "program files"
> directory doesn't generally have write permission on newer Windows
> operating systems - the error message indicates that the imported scalar
> field file cannot be opened for writing.
>
> By the way, your error message is attached (I had changed some content
> filtering rules on the list that must have stripped it - the rules are back
> to normal now so hopefully won't get stripped in future).
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
> Hi Sabin,
>
> Thanks for your response.  I've attached the error message this time.  The
> grids were made with netcdf 3, and imported without error on a Mac running
> GPlates 2.0.  I also checked whether the depth value was an integer, and
> though they were not for a couple of them, they were for the one that gave
> this error message (S40RTS).
>
> Looking forward to further troubleshooting suggestions.
>
> Thanks again,
> Oliver
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Sabin Zahirovic <
> sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Oliver,
>>
>> I didn’t see an attachment to your e-mail, so perhaps it was stripped by
>> the mailing list…
>>
>> Are you using netcdf 3 or 4 to make the grids? We currently require
>> netcdf 3 grids, but that will change in the (near) future when netcdf 4
>> grid support is implemented. From memory, the grids need to also have an
>> integer value of depth (in km) at the end of the filename, preceded by a
>> hyphen or underscore (e.g., ilovegplates3d_200.grd). You should also not
>> have a grid with the same depths. The grids must be in WGS84 geographic
>> co-ordinates too. I’m not sure that the file extension should matter – it
>> should be either nc or grd, from memory. Let me know if these suggestions
>> help. Otherwise, happy to continue troubleshooting.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sabin
>>
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>> On 29/4/17, 4:03 am, "gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au on
>> behalf of Oliver Strimpel" <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au
>> on behalf of strimpel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     I get the attached error message when I try to import a 3D scalar
>> field.
>>     I'm using GPlates 2.0 (downloaded just recently) on Windows 7.  I get
>> the
>>     same message whether I select a directory or select all the files
>> within
>>     the directory, and for each of three different tomography models.
>>
>>     Thanks in advance for help with this.
>>
>>     Oliver Strimpel
>>
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