Re: [Paraview] How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-08-20 Thread Samuel Key
Dennis, Assuming for the moment that each quad 4-tuple is a finite element that contains one or more tire reinforcement items, and that each quad 4-tuple is "sandwiched" in between two hex 8-node finite elements, then the quad's 4-tuple is also a surface facet of two

[Paraview] Color by array component from Python script not working

2015-08-20 Thread Matei Stroila
Hi, I am using ParaView 4.3.1 on Mac OSX. I used to be able to loop through the components of an attribute array and change the color of the representation. I am not sure why this is no longer working (don't recall when it was working, maybe 4.2?). It does work from GUI. This is the GUI trace for

[Paraview] How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-08-20 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have an Exodus, multi-block model. Most of the blocks are hex elements, and some are layers of quads (tires are composite structures). I would like to establish local strains which are oriented in the direction of the nearest quad layer. To do this I need to identify, for each hex in

Re: [Paraview] How to use a plugin from the python script shell prompt ?

2015-08-20 Thread houssen
For the record, I finally found the solution : use ns = globals when loading the plugin ! LoadPlugin ( '/mnt/users/.../libMyFilter.so', remote = False, ns = globals () ) FH Le 2015-08-18 18:40, houssen a écrit : Hello, How to use a plugin from the python script shell prompt ? I have a plugi