[Paraview] Getting tick marks to match data points

[Dave Lim]

Thanks for the info.  Another way would be to make the tick marks that come
together at a point to point at 90-deg from each other.

--Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wylie, Brian [mailto:bnwylie at sandia.gov]
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 5:04 PM
> To: dlim at titan.com; paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Getting tick marks to match data points
> 
> 
> Dave,
> 
> I actually 'fixed' the cube axes some time back. The rational behind
> having the ticks 'inset' a bit is so that when two axes come 
> to the same
> endpoint the text does not overlap.
> 
> The old mode of operation was to inset the ticks and then 
> actually show
> a different value like .95 instead of 1. This pissed off most users to
> no end because they couldn't actually see the true extents of their
> data. I certainly believe that showing the actual end point values is
> preferred...  The only question is how do you adjust the text 
> so that is
> does not overlap in a reasonable way. Probably the best solution is to
> have the ticks at the end but then have the text offset 
> enough to avoid
> overlap. 
> 
> If the current mode bothers you, just enter in a feature/bug 
> request. :)
> 
> Brian Wylie - Org 9227
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> > [mailto:paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Dave Lim
> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:10 PM
> > To: paraview at paraview.org
> > Subject: [Paraview] Getting tick marks to match data points
> > 
> > I can't seem to get ParaView to correctly show its tick marks 
> > on cube axes.
> > In particular, the tick marks for the minimum and the maximum 
> > points in each coordinate are always a little bit off their 
> > actual locations.  For example, when I plot a simple cube 
> > using the following VTK file and enable Cube Axes, the tick 
> > marks for 0s and 1s are located slightly inside of the edges 
> > rather than being ON the edges. Am I missing something in how 
> > ParaView interprets these points?  Thank you for any help.
> > 
> > # vtk DataFile Version 2.0
> > cube example
> > ASCII
> > DATASET UNSTRUCTURED_GRID
> > POINTS   8 float
> >      0.0000     0.0000     0.0000
> >      1.0000     0.0000     0.0000
> >      1.0000     1.0000     0.0000
> >      0.0000     1.0000     0.0000
> >      0.0000     0.0000     1.0000
> >      1.0000     0.0000     1.0000
> >      1.0000     1.0000     1.0000
> >      0.0000     1.0000     1.0000
> > CELLS   1   9
> >    8   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
> > CELL_TYPES   1
> >  12
> > 
> > POINT_DATA   8
> > SCALARS Var1 float
> > LOOKUP_TABLE default
> >   0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00
> >   0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00   1.0000E+00   0.0000E+00
> > 
> > --Dave
> > 
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