UXARRAY · rajeeja · Oct 29, 2024 · Oct 29, 2024 · Oct 31, 2024 · Oct 31, 2024
diff --git a/docs/user-guide/from-points.ipynb b/docs/user-guide/from-points.ipynb
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.12.0"
+   "version": "3.12.7"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,

diff --git a/docs/user-guide/from_file.ipynb b/docs/user-guide/from_file.ipynb
diff --git a/docs/userguide.rst b/docs/userguide.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ These user guides provide detailed explanations of the core functionality in UXa
 `Dual Mesh Construction <user-guide/dual-mesh.ipynb>`_
  Construct the Dual Mesh of an unstructured grid
 
+`From File <user-guide/from_file.ipynb>`_
+ Load unstructured grids using the Grid from_file function
+
 
 Supplementary Guides
 --------------------
@@ -106,3 +109,4 @@ These user guides provide additional details about specific features in UXarray.
    user-guide/structured.ipynb
    user-guide/from-points.ipynb
    user-guide/holoviz.ipynb
+   user-guide/from_file.ipynb
diff --git a/test/meshfiles/shp/chicago_neighborhoods/chicago_neighborhoods.shp b/test/meshfiles/shp/chicago_neighborhoods/chicago_neighborhoods.shp
diff --git a/test/meshfiles/shp/chicago_neighborhoods/chicago_neighborhoods.shx b/test/meshfiles/shp/chicago_neighborhoods/chicago_neighborhoods.shx
diff --git a/uxarray/grid/grid.py b/uxarray/grid/grid.py
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@ def from_file(
             grid_ds, source_dims_dict = _read_geodataframe(filename)
 
         elif backend == "xarray":
-            grid_ds, source_dims_dict = cls.from_dataset(filename)
+            dataset = xr.open_dataset(filename, **kwargs)
+            return cls.from_dataset(dataset)
 
         else:
             raise ValueError("Backend not supported")