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vtkOBJReader fails at reading .obj files

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I am trying to read some .obj files using ioUtils.readPolyData. For example this one:

polyData = ioUtils.readPolyData('Porsche_911_GT2.obj')

However I keep getting errors like this:

ERROR: In /root/VTK-7.1.1/IO/Geometry/vtkOBJReader.cxx, line 271
vtkOBJReader (0x2243970): Error reading 'v' at line 3

I have tried with different .obj files, but they all raise errors of that type. I also tried to open them with MeshLab and re-save them as .obj, but it didn’t work. I went searching for that /root/VTK-7.1.1/IO/Geometry/vtkOBJReader.cxx file but I soon realized that there is no VTK-7.1.1 directory inside /root. I am wondering if I installed the Director correctly, as I did it in two different ways:

git clone https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/director.git and then used make superbuild
download from https://bintray.com/patmarion/director/director/0.1.0-153-ge0a5a7b#read and extract into a folder on desktop.

It might seem a stupid thing (sorry it’s the first time I use Linux), but in both cases I didn’t install anything (in first case I only used make superbuild, in second case only extracted the .tar.gz on desktop). I am wondering if director and/or VTK have been installed at all. Any idea on this? Thanks

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Created 6 years ago
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janklimaszewskicommented, Mar 17, 2020

Hi, I resolved this error on my Ubuntu 18.04 system by changing the locale settings.

Run in terminal: sudo update-locale LC_NUMERIC=C
Log out and then log in.

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patmarioncommented, Sep 7, 2018

Hi, thanks for the update. It sounds to me like an issue that would be best fixed in VTK, so you may want to post to that bug tracker too.

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