Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-04-06 Thread Samuel Key
Renato. Spatial discrete algorithms based on the finite element method rarely if ever require ghost cells extending beyond the physical boundary. Algorithms based on finite difference technology almost always require a layer of ghost cells around the analysis domain to allow the

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Kees
Berk, Thanks for correcting me. I'll try adding the vtkGhostLevels to the XDMF and see how that goes. Chris On Apr 4, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Berk Geveci wrote: The right way to deal with this situation is to mark the ghost cells as ghost. If you create a cell array called vtkGhostLevels and

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-04-04 Thread Berk Geveci
MergeBlocks-CleantoGrid-ExtractSurface-Clip should work for you in 3.4. If not, there is something else wrong. I would like to see a dataset. I think we can make the whole thing work without MergeBlocks and CleanToGrid if we required that you define a vtkGhostLevels array that is point centered.

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-04-03 Thread Renato Elias
I constantly have the same problem than you removing the parallel interfaces. Even worse, since my solver does not use ghost cells at all. BTW, try to execute the following pipelining in ParaView *version 2.2.1*. Extract Surface -- Clean to grid -- Clip Not sure if it also works with Xdmf

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Edwards
Hi Chris, Use the Clean to Grid filter to merge all the duplicate points before extracting the surface. So, MergeBlocks-Clean to Grid-ExtractSurface-FeatureEdges-Clip Regards, Paul 2009/3/27 Chris Kees christopher.e.k...@usace.army.mil Hi, I would like to extract the surface mesh of a

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-03-30 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
You may want to be clipping the surface, not the feature edges (which should be just lines where the mesh bends sharply). MergeBlocks-Clean to Grid-ExtractSurface-Clip -Ken On 3/30/09 2:11 AM, Paul Edwards paul.m.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Use the Clean to Grid filter to merge all

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-03-30 Thread Jean Favre
Chris Kees wrote: So far I've tried MergeBlocks-ExtractSurface-FeatureEdges-Clip and various permutations that I've seen in previous posts and the wiki, but I always end up with the surfaces on the interior of the tank as if it still sees each subdomain as a closed surface. In fact, it seems

Re: [Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Kees
Thanks for the help. I also tried suggestions from Paul, Ken, and Berk, but it does seem that I'm stuck right now unless I provide ParaView with more information. Since streamlines are computed correctly on the current multiblock mesh I just generated the mesh on a single processor and

[Paraview] extract surface of multiblock mesh

2009-03-27 Thread Chris Kees
Hi, I would like to extract the surface mesh of a 3D tetrahedral mesh and clip off one boundary to see what is inside. This is to visualize a flow simulation around an object inside a tank. The tetrahedral mesh is partitioned into 512 subdomains so if you look in the information viewer