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<p>Doina,</p>
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<p>Welcome to ParaView. <br>
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<p>Here is the URL for the user's guide:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.paraview.org/paraview-guide/">https://www.paraview.org/paraview-guide/</a></p>
<p>(In the second paragraph "(CE)" click on the first blue <font
color="#3366ff">here</font>.)</p>
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<p> First comment, ParaView is not a mesh generator. (It does have a
number of displayable graphics objects, for example, a sphere.
They are are ordinarily used for testing and/or for demonstration
of ParaView's filters, et cetera. <br>
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Second, one needs to select an input format that ParaView
understands and use that format to "describe" your simulation
results, that is, describe your mesh, the datum set that resides at
Points and the datum set that resides in the Cells.<br>
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The simplest (well documented) format is the VTK-Classic format, an
all-ASCII format (see attached document). There is a caution when
using this format guide, namely, the guide is concise and complete,
but the information is stated only once and not necessarily where
you would expect to find it. One more caution -- The VTK READER in
ParaView was written by a C-language programmer, and the input
array-location information requested is in offsets. A value in the
array A(1:100) at the first location is at "0" and the item at the
end of the array is at location "99" <br>
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Just about all useful formats will have the information needed by
the VTK-Classic format and once you have mastered this format, the
other formats will make more sense.<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
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Samuel Key<br>
FMA Development<br>
Great Falls, Montana USA<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/18/2017 6:54 AM, Doina Gumeniuc
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<p>Hi dear users,</p>
<p>This might sound a bit stupid, but I am new in paraview and I
have hard times understanding how this tool works: for
instance, I do not understand how is paraview reading info
such as radius in specific points, how can I generate surface
and not just some floating points in space, how can I build
based on cross sectional area and height. So far, the only
info I could implement is x, y and z of points through csv
file.</p>
<p>Could anyone please support me with theoretical material and
so on?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I would really appreciate an example of a 3D model file
readable in paraview.</p>
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