# Cannot open some netCDF files in Paraview
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 14, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547 "2024-10-14T13:54:40Z")
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### Author:  [@ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ANON1)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547/1 "2024-10-14T13:54:40Z")
I have some result files generated by a CFD solver.
I can load most of the netCDF results such as the 3D data in Paraview, but for some reason some files cannot be read correctly (I am using Paraview 5.12 & 5.13 on Windows). I am getting the following error:
```auto
ERROR: In vtkPVImageSliceMapper.cxx, line 227
vtkPVImageSliceMapper (00000264C9171A40): Incorrect dimensionality.
```
Here is the result file that gives rise to that error message:
[result\_cbl\_ts.000.nc](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/pTvYh9N96EyoIYLS8LrZp6OA4YN.nc) (96.0 KB)
However, I can open that file using [ncview](https://cirrus.ucsd.edu/ncview/) and **VisIt** without any issues .
Do you think it is a bug, or is there a workaround? Currently, I process all my results in Paraview and would prefer not to use another post-processing software specifically for those files.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547/2 "2024-10-14T14:08:06Z")
I reproduce the error. But it seems to be an error while rendering, not while loading the data: the Information Panel and the Spreadsheet View correctly work and declare only 1 point and 1 cell, with some data. Is it expected ?
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### Author:  [@ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ANON1)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547/3 "2024-10-14T14:12:37Z")
Dear Nicolas,
Thank you for your reply.
I think I found a workaround. I had to change the output type to anything different from **Automatic** or **Image** as shown below:
