<div dir="ltr">Shell means locally 2D and Truss means locally 3D?<div>
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<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">    </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-style:italic;color:#408080">#print dir(block)</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">    </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-style:italic;color:#408080">#print dir(block.VTKObject)</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">    </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-weight:600;color:#008000">print</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'"> block</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';color:#666666">.</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">VTKObject</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';color:#666666">.</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">GetClassName()</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">    </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-weight:600;color:#008000">for</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'"> x </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-weight:600;color:#aa22ff">in</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'"> </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';color:#008000">range</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">(</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';color:#666666">0</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">,block</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';color:#666666">.</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">GetNumberOfCells()):</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">        </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-style:italic;color:#408080">#print dir(block.GetCell(x))</span></pre>
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<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-weight:600;color:#008000">for</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'"> block </span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier';font-weight:600;color:#aa22ff">in</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'"> output:</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:12px"><span style="font-family:'Courier New,courier'">    process_block(block)</span></pre>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.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">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</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Dennis Conklin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennis_conklin@goodyear.com" target="_blank">dennis_conklin@goodyear.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Yes, but I am more dense!!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">print block.VTKObject.GetClassName()<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">prints out vtkUnstructuredGrid,  which I already know.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Within my UnstructuredGrid, some blocks are hex elements, some blocks are shell elements and some blocks are truss elements – that is what I am trying to detect!<u></u><u></u></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:<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<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Dennis Conklin <<a href="mailto:dennis_conklin@goodyear.com" target="_blank">dennis_conklin@goodyear.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">  print block.VTKObject.GetClassName()<u></u><u></u></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" value="+15188814909" target="_blank">518-881-4909</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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