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> Full Name: juan sulca > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: university at albany > Package Version: 4.0u1 build date:2013-03-29 18:10 UTC > Operating System: Linux > Hardware: Java: home: /home/jsulca/IDV_4.0u1/jre version: 1.6.0_41 j3d:1.3.1 > Description of problem: Hi everybody > > I was wondering if you could help me with this problem with IDV because I > have not read ".nc" yet. Juan, I think if you replace the "http" with "dods", it will work assuming the nc dataset is following certain CF convention. By the way the server is not accessable from Unidata according to my colleague who tried to duplicate your problem. Another option is to install the nightly release which has fixed this problem. Yuan > > There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:netcdf.point with: > [http://172.24.32.22:8080/repository/entry/show/output:data.opendap/entryid:synth:0d57ac45-d39f-4b44-900e-4c3bb2c1d716:L0RhaWx5L0NzdVBXVmRfMjAxMy4xNDguMDAuMDAuMTQ0MF9uYw==/CsuPWVd_2013.148.00.00.1440_nc/dodsC/entry.das] > Point obs data source failed making data set: > http://172.24.32.22:8080/repository/entry/show/output:data.opendap/entryid:synth:0d57ac45-d39f-4b44-900e-4c3bb2c1d716:L0RhaWx5L0NzdVBXVmRfMjAxMy4xNDguMDAuMDAuMTQ0MF9uYw==/CsuPWVd_2013.148.00.00.1440_nc/dodsC/entry.das > Unable to make a PointDataset from > http://172.24.32.22:8080/repository/entry/show/output:data.opendap/entryid:synth:0d57ac45-d39f-4b44-900e-4c3bb2c1d716:L0RhaWx5L0NzdVBXVmRfMjAxMy4xNDguMDAuMDAuMTQ0MF9uYw==/CsuPWVd_2013.148.00.00.1440_nc/dodsC/entry.das > Error = > > ****************** > Stack trace: > ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Unable to make a PointDataset from > http://172.24.32.22:8080/repository/entry/show/output:data.opendap/entryid:synth:0d57ac45-d39f-4b44-900e-4c3bb2c1d716:L0RhaWx5L0NzdVBXVmRfMjAxMy4xNDguMDAuMDAuMTQ0MF9uYw==/CsuPWVd_2013.148.00.00.1440_nc/dodsC/entry.das > Error = > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.NetcdfPointDataSource.doMakeDataset(NetcdfPointDataSource.java:282) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.NetcdfPointDataSource.getDataset(NetcdfPointDataSource.java:252) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.NetcdfPointDataSource.initAfterCreation(NetcdfPointDataSource.java:209) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1597) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.makeDataSource(XmlChooser.java:280) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler.processNodes(ThreddsHandler.java:852) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler.doLoad(ThreddsHandler.java:701) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.doLoadInThread(XmlChooser.java:717) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WNL-762745 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed