Thanks Ken. I will try this on other machines. BTW I have version 3.0 of OpenGL: $ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version" OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.5.9
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The sender, therefore, does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of email transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. Geomechanica Inc. On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> wrote: > Omid, > > > > The only other thing I can think of is that there is something odd about > the OpenGL driver/hardware on your system that for some reason is not > supporting the coincident topology resolution in ParaView. ParaView changed > its rendering system from OpenGL 1.3 to OpenGL 3.1 in version 5, the > version that you report seeing the issue. > > > > Once again, I recommend trying to run ParaView on a completely different > computer if you can find access to one. You might also try updating the > OpenGL drivers on your computer. Beyond that, I am out of ideas. > > > > -Ken > > > > *From: *Omid Mahabadi <omid.mahab...@geomechanica.com> > *Date: *Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 7:58 AM > *To: *"Moreland, Kenneth" <kmo...@sandia.gov> > *Cc: *"paraview@paraview.org" <paraview@paraview.org> > > *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] ParaView 5.x not showing all objects > available in Pipeline Browser > > > > Hi Ken, > > Thanks for your feedback and sorry for my late reply. Somehow I didn't get > this message and only found your reply after searching in my mailbox. > > > > I tried various values for the Z Shift, increasing it by one order of > magnitude until reaching a value of 200, restarting in between changes. > This didn't help. > > > > I haven't really made any other changes in ParaView settings. I even > restored to defaults a couple of times. I've been using Linux Mint 17 and > have also experienced the same issue on Ubuntu 14.04 both 64 bit. > > > > Thanks > > > Best regards, > > Omid > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> > wrote: > > Omid, > > > > Even after applying the Threshold filter, I cannot replicate your problem. > I’ve tried on both ParaView 5.2 and 5.4. Both work fine for me. > > > > My settings are the default. “Resolve Coincident Topology” is set to > “Shift z-buffer when rendering lines and points”. “Z Shift” is set to > 0.002. (Polygon offset should not matter in this mode.) You could try > increasing the Z Shift to fix the problem. Note that you have to restart > ParaView in order for these options to take effect. > > > > It is possible that there is some quirk with the rendering system on your > computer that does not implement the topology resolution. Do you happen to > have another computer on which you can try to run this? I also noted that > if I turn on OSPRay rendering, I do get the missing line issue you > describe. There might be other display/rendering parameters that cause > issues. But the defaults should be fine, so unless you have done some > tinkering you should be OK. > > > > -Ken > > > > *From:* Omid Mahabadi [mailto:omid.mahab...@geomechanica.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:21 AM > *To:* Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> > *Cc:* paraview@paraview.org > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] ParaView 5.x not showing all objects > available in Pipeline Browser > > > > Hi Ken, > > Thanks for the detailed reply. I could not get anything out of the > settings dialog as per your suggestion. Did you have a combination of those > settings that might work for my files? > > I can also see the image you sent; that's usually fine. However, I > typically apply a Threshold filter to the _basic_ files (Scalar: alive; > min: 0.1; max: 1). In this case, the _basic_ object is always drawn in > front of the _broken_joint_ object. > > In addition, I visualize dozens of these files every day so Transforming > every single object is a bit tedious. > > Thank you, > > Omid > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> > wrote: > > Omid, > > > > I am unable to replicate your issue in ParaView 5.4.1. When I loaded your > data and showed the broken_joint data in wireframe, I was clearly able to > see the lines of broken_joint over the polygons of basic. (See the attached > image.) > > > > The problem you are getting is likely caused by z-buffer fighting in the > rendering. This happens when two objects are the exact same distance from > the viewer, as I believe is the case in your data. Wanting to draw lines on > top of polygons is common enough that there are some corrections to help > the rendering determine what to draw in front. Perhaps by changing the > settings on resolving coincident topology will resolve your issue. You can > find them by opening the ParaView settings dialog (Edit → Settings), > clicking on the Render View tab, and turning on the advanced options. The > options you are looking for are “Resolve Coincident Topology,” “Polygon > Offset Parameters”, and “Z Shift.” > > > > Another, possibly easier, solution it to simply move the lines of the > broken_joint data closer to the camera. Click the broken_joint object and > add the Transform filter. Change the Translate parameter to 0, 0, 1 and > apply. That should shift the wireframe forward enough to see it properly. > > > > -Ken > > > > *From:* ParaView [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Omid > Mahabadi > *Sent:* Monday, January 8, 2018 2:30 PM > *To:* paraview@paraview.org > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] ParaView 5.x not showing all objects > available in Pipeline Browser > > > > Hi, > > I use ParaView to visualize data of our simulations using the Unstructured > Grid data format. Up until ParaView 4.x everything worked fine: we > typically visualize one set of data files as Surfaces and another as > Wireframe. The Wireframe dataset refers to "fracture lines" in our > simulations. > > See below how the simulation looked like in PV version 4.x. You could > clearly see the line around the boundaries of the model. > > [image: nline image 1] > > However, in PV 5.x the lines are not fully visualized as if they're hidden > below the other data object: > > [image: nline image 2] > > I've tried a few versions of 5.x but they all behave similarly. > > Does anyone know what might be going on here? Is this a bug / removed > featured from the new version or should I do something different with 5.x? > I've noticed that this issue does not happen consistently. I've seen the > issue on both Linux Mint 17.3 (64 bit) and Ubuntu > > I've attached two example VTU files. Please visualize the second file as > Wireframe (_broken_joint). Below are two large VTU files. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzt4jq1wbwfua4j/out.zip?dl=0 > > > > Can someone else reproduce this issue? > > > > I'd really hope to start using ParaView 5 since it finally has the > long-missing Reload Files options! > > Thank you, > > Omid > > > > > > > > > > >
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