[Paraview] Unable to display points and lines

[Pieter Barendrecht]

Hi,

Ah, you're right! Seems to be another bug in the code which outputs this .vtu file... Thanks, I'll try to fix it.

Best,
Pieter

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:09:21 -0400 
David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:

> Points are the locations in space, cells are regions of space defined by
> some number of points. VTK draws cells (ex. tetrahedra, quads, triangles,
> and vertices), not points. A vertex is a cell defined by exactly one
> point. To make vertex cells from any data set, apply the glyph filter with
> glyph type 2D Glypt, Vertex.
> 
> Your data set has line type cells, but the points that define the lines are
> coincident. Use the spreadsheet view to confirm.
> Ex cell 0 consists of points 0 and 1, but if you look at the point data you
> will see that points 0 and 1 are both:
> 0.3753 -1.15505 0.222222
> 0.3753 -1.15505 0.222222
> 
> hth
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
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> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
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> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Pieter Barendrecht <
> p.j.barendrecht at student.tue.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Is this due to the difference between points and vertices? I found a page (
> > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/User_Created_Plugins) which mentions
> > the conversion of points to vertices, but I'm having some problems with
> > compiling this plugin. Are there any other methods resulting in ParaView
> > visualizing the points and lines from my .vtu file (attached to the
> > previous mail)?
> >
> > Pieter
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:10:13 +0200
> > Pieter Barendrecht <p.j.barendrecht at student.tue.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having some trouble displaying the contents of the attached .vtu
> > file (5 kB). In Spreadsheet View mode I can confirm that the file contains
> > 32 lines and 64 points, however, nothing is displayed regardless of the
> > Representation I pick. Adding filters such as a Glyph or 3D Delaunay does
> > result in some visualization, but it should be possible to display just
> > these line pieces, right?
> > >
> > > By the way, I am using ParaView 4.0.1 64-bit on Linux.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Pieter
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