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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">David,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks very much, I’ve sorted through my stuff and found out what VTK thinks each of them are. Since EXODUS limits each block to a single element type, it never
occurred to me to test the type of an individual cell, I was sure there would be a block level cell type.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks again
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dennis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 14, 2015 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dennis Conklin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Paraview (paraview@paraview.org)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shell means locally 2D and Truss means locally 3D?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="margin-top:9.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif;color:green">def</span></b><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <span style="color:blue">process_block</span>(block):</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <i><span style="color:#408080">#print dir(block)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <i><span style="color:#408080">#print dir(block.VTKObject)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <b><span style="color:green">print</span></b> block<span style="color:#666666">.</span>VTKObject<span style="color:#666666">.</span>GetClassName()</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <b><span style="color:green">for</span></b> x <b><span style="color:#AA22FF">in</span></b> <span style="color:green">range</span>(<span style="color:#666666">0</span>,block<span style="color:#666666">.</span>GetNumberOfCells()):</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <i><span style="color:#408080">#print dir(block.GetCell(x))</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> <b><span style="color:green">print</span></b> x, block<span style="color:#666666">.</span>GetCellType(x)</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif;color:green">for</span></b><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier",serif"> block <b><span style="color:#AA22FF">in</span></b> output:</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The printed cell types correspond to:<br>
<a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/vtkCellType_8h_source.html">http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/vtkCellType_8h_source.html</a><br>
There is probably a macro somewhere to get a GetCellTypeAsString() but easy enough to do in the filter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David E DeMarle<br>
Kitware, Inc.<br>
R&D Engineer<br>
21 Corporate Drive<br>
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>
Phone: 518-881-4909<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Dennis Conklin <<a href="mailto:dennis_conklin@goodyear.com" target="_blank">dennis_conklin@goodyear.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">David,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yes, but I am more dense!!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">print block.VTKObject.GetClassName()<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">prints out vtkUnstructuredGrid, which I already know.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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are truss elements – that is what I am trying to detect!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dennis</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David E DeMarle [mailto:<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dennis Conklin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Paraview (<a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview@paraview.org</a>)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] Re: [Paraview] How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am more persistent (and more dense). :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">def process_block(block):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> #print dir(block)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> #print dir(block.VTKObject)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> print block.VTKObject.GetClassName()<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">for block in output:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> process_block(block)<o:p></o:p></p>
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Kitware, Inc.<br>
R&D Engineer<br>
21 Corporate Drive<br>
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>
Phone: <a href="tel:518-881-4909" target="_blank">518-881-4909</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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