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<p class="MsoNormal">Evidentially, as I describe in the question, a QUAD descriptor or SHELL descriptor does this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Including the person who made the request in this e-mail thread.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">David Thompson <david.thompson@kitware.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, June 8, 2018 at 6:39 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>W Scott <wascott@sandia.gov><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"paraview-developers@paraview.org" <paraview-developers@paraview.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] 3d file opening as 2d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hi Alan,<o:p></o:p></p>
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Question from a user: <o:p></o:p></p>
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The attached exodus results file will open up in Paraview as a 2D problem because at t=0, the z dimensions are consistent.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Could Paraview switch between 2D if the element type contains a QUAD descriptor , and 3D if the element type contains a SHELL descriptor?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">If there's not a way for sources/readers to indicate the "problem dimension," there probably should be. However, it seems to me that it would be better if Exodus files could explicitly designate whether they are
2d or 3d than trying to come up with rules for the reader to infer it, rather than just passing along file metadata.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> David<o:p></o:p></p>
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