[Paraview] PV 4.1 How to extract a slice for z= constant

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Wornom
The mesh is unstructured, PV running mpi. The mesh is rectangular. I would like to extract an exterior boundary. How does one do this? Thanks, Stephen ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ope

Re: [Paraview] PV 4.1 How to extract a slice for z= constant

2014-10-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The subject line of this email asks how to extract a slice in a z=constant plane. That can easily be done with the slice filter with the normal set to 0,0,1. The text of this email asks a completely different question, extracting the exterior boundary of an unstructured mesh. This is done with

[Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread B.W.H. van Beest
Hello, I need a filter that only keeps the 3D points of a certain source (e.g. coming from an stl file). The topology of the data set may go. I thought that the following filter, only passing through the pointdata, would do the job, but that appears not to be the case (no points after the filter

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread Biddiscombe, John A.
Output->SetPoints(input->GetPoints()); Or Output->CopyStructure(input); Output->SetCells(NULL) Then copy point field data etc On 22/10/14 16:19, "B.W.H. van Beest" wrote: >Hello, > >I need a filter that only keeps the 3D points of a certain source (e.g. >coming from an stl file). >The topol

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread Burlen Loring
don't forget to add vertex type cells, or you will not be able to see the points, and that it's going to be more complicated if you're starting from data types that have implicit points. On 10/22/2014 07:52 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote: Output->SetPoints(input->GetPoints()); Or Output->C

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread B.W.H. van Beest
The compiler tells me: error: ‘class vtkDataSet’ has no member named ‘SetPoints’ Likewise, SetCells() is also not a member function of vtkDataSet. Indeed, according to the doc, there is no such function. Any idea? On 10/22/2014 04:52 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote: > Output->SetPoints(in

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread B.W.H. van Beest
Are you saying that one cannot have just points? In my case, I want to snap the points to a structured grid, but haven't done that yet, as I wanted to see the points first, and do the snapping as a next step. So that is not a good idea? I need to do it all in one go? Regards, Bertwim On 10/

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread Biddiscombe, John A.
SetPoints is present in vtkDataSets that are subclasses of vtkPointSet You said you didn’t want any topology, so I didn’t think you wanted vertex cells. vtkSmartPointer vertices = vtkSmartPointer::New(); vtkIdType *cells = vertices->WritePointer(Nt, 2*Nt); for (vtkIdType i=0; iSetVerts(ve

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread Burlen Loring
you can have just points, they'll be ignored during rendering without vertex type cells. On 10/22/2014 08:15 AM, B.W.H. van Beest wrote: Are you saying that one cannot have just points? In my case, I want to snap the points to a structured grid, but haven't done that yet, as I wanted to see t

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread B.W.H. van Beest
Ah, I found it. It is the other way around: vtkPointSet is a subclass of vtkDataSet. The former has SetPoints, the latter has not. So I subclassed my filter class from vtkPointSet instead of vtkDataSet, and it now it works. Thanks. Bertwim Kind Regards, Bertwim On 10/22/2014 05:32 PM, Biddis

[Paraview] Feature request - Need more detailed control of generating nodal quantities from element results

2014-10-22 Thread Scott, W Alan
A question from a user. I believe that answer is correct to the first bullet, and the answer is no to the second bullet? 1 - Averaging a nodal result from surrounding elements is OK as long as the node is within a homogenous body. This process is not correct for nodes on the boundary between