[mn14cat]

Hi all,

I am trying to use the pyFoamDisplayBlockMesh.py utility, however I receive the following error :

VTK version 6
PyFoam WARNING on line 48 of file /home/mn14cat/foam/foam-extend-4.1/ThirdParty/packages/PyFoam-0.6.9/platforms/noarch/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyFoam-0.6.9-py2.7.egg/PyFoam/Applications/DisplayBlockMeshQt.py : VTK version 6 currently unsupported

I then ran pyFoamVersion.py to check the version on VTK and recieved the following:

pyFoam-Version: 0.6.9

Path where PyFoam was found (PyFoam.__path__) is ['/home/mn14cat/foam/foam-extend-4.1/ThirdParty/packages/PyFoam-0.6.9/platforms/noarch/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyFoam-0.6.9-py2.7.egg/PyFoam']

Configuration search path: [('file', '/etc/pyFoam/pyfoamrc'), ('directory', '/etc/pyFoam/pyfoamrc.d'), ('file', '/home/mn14cat/foam/foam-extend-4.1/ThirdParty/PyFoamSiteScripts/etc/pyfoamrc'), ('directory', '/home/mn14cat/foam/foam-extend-4.1/ThirdParty/PyFoamSiteScripts/etc/pyfoamrc.d'), ('file', '/home/mn14cat/.pyFoam/pyfoamrc'), ('directory', '/home/mn14cat/.pyFoam/pyfoamrc.d')]
Configuration files (used): []

Installed libraries:
cython : Yes version: 0.26.1
cProfile : Yes
docutils : No Not necessary. Needed for RestructuredText to HTML conversion
Gnuplot : No Not a problem. Version from ThirdParty is used
hotshot : Yes
line_profiler : No Not a problem. Can't profile using this library
ipdb : No Not necessary. Only makes debugging more comfortable
IPython : No Not necessary. But the interactive shell may be more comfortable
matplotlib : No Only Gnuplot-plotting possible
mercurial : Yes version: 4.5.3
pytest : No Only needed for running the unit-tests (developers only)
numpy : Yes version: 1.16.6
openpyxl : No Not a problem. Only used for exporting pandas-data to Excel-files (advanced). If xlsxwriter is installed it will handle this (xlsxwriter is recommended anyway)
xlsxwriter : No Not a problem. Only used for exporting pandas-data to XLSX-files (advanced). If openpyxl is installed then this module can handle that
pandas : No Not a problem. Only used for handling of advanced data-handling
ply : No Not a problem. Version from ThirdParty is used
profile : Yes
psyco : No Not a problem. Acceleration not possible
PyQt4 : Yes version: 4.8.7
PyQt4.Qwt5 : No Only an alternate plotting back-end
scipy : No Not yet used. Possibly use signal-fitting etc
Tkinter : Yes version: $Revision: 81008 $
twisted : Yes version: 17.9.0
vtk : Yes version: 6.3.0
xlwt : No Not a problem. Only used for exporting pandas-data to Excel-files
xlrd : No Not a problem. Only used for importing Excel-files to pandas-data
requests : No Not a problem. Currently only needed for the blink(1)-support
zeroconf : No Not a problem. Necessary to find existing runs. Install with 'pip install zeroconf'
psutil : No Not a problem. Provides better calculation of the maximum used memory
PyFoam.ThirdParty.ply.yacc : Yes version: 3.9
PyFoam.ThirdParty.Gnuplot : Yes version: 1.8
PyFoam.ThirdParty.tqdm : Yes version: 4.8.4
PyFoam.ThirdParty.IPy : Yes version: 0.51
PyFoam.ThirdParty.pyratemp : Yes version: 0.2.0
PyFoam.ThirdParty.six : Yes version: 1.10.0
PyFoam.ThirdParty.winhacks : Yes

I am currently running VTK version 6.3.0. After reading through other threads related to similar issues I have learned that DisplayBlockMesh.py doesn't work with version 6.3.0 but will work with VTK Version 5.

I have since built/installed VTK version 5.10.1, however I am unsure how to change the version of VTK ( effectively downgrading) from 6.3 to 5.10 .

Any help with this would be massively appreciated.

Thanks in advance