[Paraview] Polyhedron Cells

[Brian Dotson]

Brad,

I am using the .vtu file format (new VTK XML format).

Brian

>>> Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> 3/29/2005 11:41 AM >>>
Brian Dotson wrote:
> I am working with a group of folks that are developing computational
> fluid dynamics (CFD) software.  They plan on using an unstructured
grid
> with polyhedron cells.  We have done some preliminary tests by
creating
> unstructured grids with polyhedron (ConvexPointSet) cells in the vtk
> file format.  This method works, but when the cell counts are large,
it
> can take minutes for Paraview to load the data.  I tried the same
data
> that was meshed with tetrahedrons and it loaded within a few
seconds.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can speed the load time up when
> loading large polyhedron data sets?

Are you using the .vtu file format (new VTK XML format) or a .vtk file

(legacy VTK format)?

-Brad