[Paraview] clean to grid question...

[Wylie, Brian]

Renato,

If I understand your question, you can just run the D3 filter. You do
not need to run the 'clean to grid' filter because D3 will do that for
you and it will also compute ghost cells in between processors.

  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 Renato N. Elias
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:33 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] clean to grid question...
> 
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a silly doubt regarding the "clean to grid" filter 
> (just to confirm my suspicions...).
> 
> This filter is able to merge entities that are within a 
> merging tolerance according to the PV guide. I guess it's a 
> wonderful feature to work with partitioned models due to 
> parallelism without having to rebuild the original (non 
> partitioned)  model. However, when cleaning interfaces due to 
> paralellization (those surfaces between MPI partitions) it 
> seems that the user MUST apply the "append datasets" filter 
> before trying to cleaning it, isn't it?!
> 
> This question came to my mind after loading a model with the 
> SOS format in PV-2.4.3. I know, I know, the Ensight readers 
> have not been working fine in
> PV-2.4.3 yet and some filters are not associated with the 
> reader accordingly. When using parallel file formats the user 
> have several parts of models (written in different files) 
> that are loaded together as it was only one file and model, 
> so, the need of the "append datasets" filter, I think, is not 
> evident. Maybe, the "append datasets" should be automatically 
> called when loading parallel formats.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Renato N. Elias
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