partially reading vtkMultiBlockDataSet

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Hi all,

I am working on an application where I have to read many (potentially large) vtkMultiBlockDataSet, but only use parts of the data stored in those data sets. Thus, I am looking for a way to only selectively load data in order to minimize disk IO. I could of course parse the .vtm manually to get the paths to the blocks I need, but this is quite cumbersome and hard to maintain. I wonder if there is a way to do this natively in vtk - like telling the reader to parse the .vtm and then obtain a multiblock with only selected blocks, without touching the unneeded data.

Thanks for any help!

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any updates on this?

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AFAIK it depends on the reader itself, for example, the exodus reader allow to do such thing. what is your file format and reader that you want to use ?

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im trying to read vtkmultiblockdataset

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if your file is a vtm indeed it’s currently not possible with the reader but adding such feature could make sense