On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> wrote:
> > 1) When I set the glyph filter to sphere, it is placing spheres only at the > 20 points on the "grid" in that file, not at the vertex where all the lines > meet. There are 21 points in the file - so I would expect it to put a sphere > at all 21 points. That is what I was trying to explain last time, it seems > to be glyphing Vectors: Normals, not points. I can't change the "Vectors" > drop down box to anything except "Normals", and the scalars drop down box is > disabled. When I turned "Scale mode" to "off" as you recommended, the 21st > sphere showed up - but doesn't it still seem odd that you have to set it to > glyph normals even though you want to glyph points? > > Normals are just a field on the points. The glyph filter can orient and > scale glyphs by any normals. As I stated before, you should turn off > scaling. You can also turn off orientation, although with spheres you > shouldn’t notice anything different. > > > 2) I guess I forgot to mention that the tube filter does not produce any > output, in fact my render window is completely empty after applying the > filter. So I guess I should not ignore the errors in this case haha! > > Hmm. I’ve never seen that before. The tube filter seems to be doing > something special with normals, but I don’t know what. Perhaps someone more > familiar with the guts of the tube filter can comment. > > -Ken > > 1) Ah, I understand now. I guess it would make more sense to me if the layout was more like this: Scale mode: off/vector/scalar Data to use: Normals/Your Data/Something else But only data that makes sense in the selected scale mode is available. Also - why is there no Shaft Length setting for the arrows? 2) ok, we'll see if anyone has any ideas. Thanks, David
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