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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Thank you T.J. <br><br>I think I see now how the information is organized via those ‘offsets’. Do you know if there is a function call that can tell it to write the actual connectivity out in full? If it’s really obscure or would be difficult to find out, then don’t worry about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>-Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>"T.J. Corona" <tj.corona@kitware.com><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 12:52 PM<br><b>To: </b>Christopher Neal <chrisneal@snumerics.com><br><b>Cc: </b>Benson Muite via ParaView <paraview@paraview.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Paraview] VTK XML Unstructured Grid format<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Chris,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t think the line breaks represent discrete cells. If you count them, there are 32 values for the connectivity (4 cells x 8 points). <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>T.J.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thomas J. Corona, Ph.D.<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: 518-881-4443<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Aug 24, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Christopher Neal <<a href="mailto:chrisneal@snumerics.com">chrisneal@snumerics.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Hi All,</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Does anyone have a link to an example or documentation describing how one can interpret a *.vtu file that is XML ascii? I’m looking at a file that was written for a 2x2x1 group of cells i.e. 4 hexahedral cells, and the connectivity looks like:</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><Cells></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> <DataArray type="Int64" Name="connectivity" format="ascii" RangeMin="0" RangeMax="17"></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 0 6 8 2 1 7</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 9 3 2 8 10 4</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 3 9 11 5 6 12</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 14 8 7 13 15 9</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 8 14 16 10 9 15</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 17 11</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </DataArray></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> <DataArray type="Int64" Name="offsets" format="ascii" RangeMin="8" RangeMax="32"></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 8 16 24 32</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </DataArray></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> <DataArray type="UInt8" Name="types" format="ascii" RangeMin="12" RangeMax="12"></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> 12 12 12 12</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </DataArray></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </Cells></span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><br>I can’t seem to understand the connectivity info that is displayed. I would image there should be 8 entries per line for a hexahedral cell.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:MingLiU'><br><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Any material on this would be greatly appreciated.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:MingLiU'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Thank you,</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Chris Neal</span><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;background:white'>_______________________________________________</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><br><span style='background:white'>Powered by<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.kitware.com/"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#954F72;background:white'>www.kitware.com</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><br><br><span style='background:white'>Visit other Kitware open-source projects at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#954F72;background:white'>http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><br><br><span style='background:white'>Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></span><a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#954F72;background:white'>http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><br><br><span style='background:white'>Search the list archives at:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></span><a href="http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#954F72;background:white'>http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><br><br><span style='background:white'>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:</span><br></span><a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#954F72;background:white'>http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>