[Paraview] How does the PVPickFilter list the order of the points

[Vines, John (Civ, ARL/CISD)]

Will do, thanks 


John Vines
Computational Sciences and Engineering Branch
Scientific Visualization Team
410-278-9150/1643


-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:42 AM
To: Vines, John (Civ, ARL/CISD)
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: RE: [Paraview] How does the PVPickFilter list the order of the
points

Hi John,

I'm copying your recent messages in this thread back to the ParaView
users list.  Please keep the discussion on the list so others can help
answer your questions and so the answers are archived.

- Amy

At 09:37 AM 9/14/2005, you wrote:
>Amy,
>         Here are 2 XDMF files defining a hexahedral cell.  Both  XDMF 
>files define the connectivity differently.
>
>I am using Paraview 2.0, release 1 to open the XDMF file and using the 
>pick filter to pick cell 0.  The connectivity that I am seeing is not 
>what is defined in the XDMF file.
>
>It seems as though the pick filter is ignoring the connectivity order. 
>The ID seems to be correct but the XYZ point is not correct.
>
>Hopefully this is a bit clearer than mud ;)
>
>Thanks again,
>John
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com]
>Sent:   Wed 9/14/2005 8:37 AM
>To:     Vines, John  (Civ, ARL/CISD); paraview at paraview.org
>Cc:
>Subject:        RE: [Paraview] How does the PVPickFilter list the 
>order of the   points
>
>That's the ordering for VTK_VOXEL.  Are you sure the cells in your data

>are hexahedra, not voxels?
>
>- Amy
>
>At 06:56 AM 9/14/2005, Vines, John  \(Civ, ARL/CISD\) wrote:
> >Amy,
> >Thanks for the information.  Now here is another question ;)  I 
> >expected to get the point order as you stated:
> >(bottom)        (top)
> >   3    2           7     6
> >   0    1           4     5
> >
> >But the order that I am seeing is:
> >
> >(bottom)        (top)
> >    2     3         6     7
> >    0     1         4     5
> >
> >         -----Original Message-----
> >         From: Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com]
> >         Sent: Tue 9/13/2005 3:52 PM
> >         To: Vines, John (Civ, ARL/CISD); paraview at paraview.org
> >         Cc:
> >         Subject: Re: [Paraview] How does the PVPickFilter list the 
> > order of the points
> >
> >
> >
> >         See page 9 of this PDF
(http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf)
> >         available from VTK's web site.  From the image there, the
points on
> >         the bottom and top faces of the hexahedron are as follows.
> >
> >         (bottom)                (top)
> >         3       2               7       6
> >         0       1               4       5
> >
> >         - Amy
> >
> >         At 03:41 PM 9/13/2005, Vines, John  (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
> >         >content-class: urn:content-classes:message
> >         >Content-Type: text/plain;
> >         >         charset="utf-8"
> >         >
> >         >All,
> >         >Does anyone know how the pick filter lists the order of the
points
> >         >of a hexahedral cell?  I need to verify the connectivity of
> >         >hexahedral cells.  I was under the impression that I could
use the
> >         >pick filter to pick a cell and view the connectivity but
I'm not
> >         >getting the connectivity I expected.
> >         >
> >         >Thanks in advance,
> >         >John
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