Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/src/m/consistency/checkfield.py
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/src/m/consistency/checkfield.py	(revision 23561)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/src/m/consistency/checkfield.py	(revision 23562)
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@
 			else:
 				try:
-					 exec("md.{}=field[:,0]".format(fieldname))
-					 print('{} had a bad dimension, we fixed it but you should check it'.format(fieldname))
+					exec("md.{}=np.squeeze(field)".format(fieldname))
+					print('{} had been squeezed if it was a matrix with only one column'.format(fieldname))
 				except IndexError:
 					md = md.checkmessage(options.getfieldvalue('message',"field {} should have {} dimension".format(fieldname,len(fieldsize))))