Dear PETSc developers, I have a DMPlex DM with 1 field 1dof. I'd like to output a vector with block size equals to 3. It seems that there is no response using command line option or using some code about PetscViewer. The DM is generated with (note that I'm not using PetscFE for discretization, just for allocate dof.) PetscCall(DMPlexCreateExodusFromFile(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,"tube.exo",interpolate,&dm)); PetscCall(PetscFECreateLagrange(PETSC_COMM_SELF,dim,1,PETSC_TRUE,1,PETSC_DETERMINE,&fe)); PetscCall(PetscObjectSetName((PetscObject)fe,"potential_field")); PetscCall(DMSetField(dm,0,NULL,(PetscObject)fe)); PetscCall(DMPlexDistribute(dm,0,&sf,&dmParallel)); The Vector is created using PetscCall(DMCreateGlobalVector(dm,&phi_1)); PetscCall(VecSetLocalToGlobalMapping(phi_1,Itog)); PetscCall(VecGetLocalSize(phi_1,&vec_local_size_test)); PetscCall(VecCreateMPI(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, vec_local_size_test*3, PETSC_DETERMINE, &u_grad_psi)); PetscCall(VecSetBlockSize(u_grad_psi, 3)); PetscCall(VecSetLocalToGlobalMapping(u_grad_psi,Itog)); The output command line option is just --vec_view vtk:test.vtk. The PETSc version I'm using is 3.19.5. Could you please give me some advice? Best Regards, Yujie