<div dir="ltr">Hi Ufuk,<div><br></div><div>ParaView doesn't currently support volume rendering of multiblock datasets, even in serial, so using the Merge Blocks filter is probably the best way to do any volume rendering of your dataset.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Ufuk Turuncoglu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:u.utku.turuncoglu@be.itu.edu.tr" target="_blank">u.utku.turuncoglu@be.itu.edu.tr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to perform volume rendering (VR) using multi-block + multi-piece dataset. In this case, the data file has single block that contains multiple piece (created by MPI parallel simulation code) and it is in structured grid. When I try to use volume rendering with raw data, it creates empty output but if I use Merge Block filter before using volume rendering, it works without any problem. So, I have to use <span style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;display:inline!important;float:none">Merge Blocks to perform VR. </span>At this point, I just wonder that is it typical behaviour of ParaView for <span style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;display:inline!important;float:none"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;display:inline!important;float:none"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;display:inline!important;float:none">multi-block + multi-piece datasets? Is it still possible to perform VR in parallel if I had a multiple core (such as enabling Auto MPI from the settings)? If not is there any way to re-structure the data to perform more efficient rendering?</span></span></span></div><div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><div style="clear:both">Best Regards,</div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><div style="clear:both">--ufuk</div><div style="clear:both"><br></div><div style="clear:both"><br></div>   </div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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