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Hi Ryan- > Full Name: Ryan Kelly > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology > Package Version: 2.5 build date:2008-05-08 07:05 UTC > Operating System: Windows XP > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_2.5\jre version: 1.5.0_11 > j3d:1.3.2 fcs (build12) > Description of problem: Hello, > We have an ocean model which contains 11 sigma levels, curvilinear grid. We > output in netCDF files, but we are having trouble with displaying in 3D with > IDV. We are unable to produce volume slices. IDV has displayed each sigma > level as a surface, but no volume can be generated. > > This is the message we receive: > > Couldn't get data > Gridded3DSet: samples values may not be missing > > Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. > Thank You Can you send us a pointer to the file or put the file on an server so we can take a look? The error indicates that there are missing values in the domain. Don Murray > ****************** > Stack trace: > visad.SetException: Gridded3DSet: samples values may not be missing > at visad.Gridded3DSet.<init>(Gridded3DSet.java:96) > at visad.GriddedSet.create(GriddedSet.java:218) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.getInitialSpatialDomain(GeoGridAdapter.java:858) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.getSpatialDomainSet(GeoGridAdapter.java:387) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.getFlatField(GeoGridAdapter.java:1105) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.makeSequence(GeoGridAdapter.java:1297) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridAdapter.getSequence(GeoGridAdapter.java:1047) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.makeFieldImpl(GeoGridDataSource.java:1431) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataInner(GeoGridDataSource.java:1144) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getData(DataSourceImpl.java:2063) > at ucar.unidata.data.DirectDataChoice.getData(DirectDataChoice.java:333) > at ucar.unidata.data.DerivedDataChoice.setData(DerivedDataChoice.java:610) > at > ucar.unidata.data.DerivedDataChoice.collectOperands(DerivedDataChoice.java:537) > at ucar.unidata.data.DerivedDataChoice.getData(DerivedDataChoice.java:709) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataChoice.getData(DataChoice.java:620) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:239) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:203) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.init(GridDataInstance.java:204) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.<init>(GridDataInstance.java:161) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.<init>(GridDataInstance.java:142) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.doMakeDataInstance(PlanViewControl.java:1172) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.initializeDataInstance(DisplayControlImpl.java:2903) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.setData(DisplayControlImpl.java:2885) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.setData(PlanViewControl.java:489) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.FlowPlanViewControl.setData(FlowPlanViewControl.java:171) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.init(PlanViewControl.java:398) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1257) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:968) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor.initControl(ControlDescriptor.java:951) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor$1.run(ControlDescriptor.java:876) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1018) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WRE-134204 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open