[Paraview] Rotating a cylinder

[Marco Maneta]

Absolutely right!! there it is the cyclinder standing at the right
position! Now I understand better since I realize the 'Actor Control' lets
you place the origin and the translation for affine transforms. 

Thank you, Timothy, for the prompt reply. Paraview is becoming a very
valuable tool for me. 

> Sounds like the center of rotation for your cylinder is off, so that
> rotating it displaces it off-screen.  Make sure that the Cylinder
> "Center" property in the "Parameters" tab is set to the origin, then use
> the "Actor Control" properties in the "Display" tab to position and
> orient your cylinder.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim
> 
> Timothy M. Shead
> Sandia National Laboratories
> Data Analysis & Visualization
> 505-284-0139
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: paraview-bounces+tshead=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> > [mailto:paraview-bounces+tshead=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Marco Maneta
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:02 PM
> > To: paraview at paraview.org
> > Subject: [Paraview] Rotating a cylinder
> > 
> > 
> > Hello to the Parview list, 
> > 
> > I am a new Paraview user. I use it to visualize the effects 
> > of heavy pumpage on groundwater. I am displaying a vector 
> > field of groundwater flow around the well and I would like to 
> > place a cylinder to indicate its location. I enter 
> > information on the location of the well in a cylinder source 
> > and the cylinder nicely shows up, the problem is that when I 
> > rotate it 90dg to put it paralel to the z axis the cylinder 
> > simply disappears. In fact it is only properly displayed when 
> > it is at the default orientation, it vanishes at any other.  
> > 
> > The data set uses world coordinates (UTM coordinates) for the 
> > southern hemisphere. I am running PV precompiled version 2.4, 
> > release 4 for Windows on Windows XP Professional SP2. I have 
> > searched the mailing list to check if this problems was 
> > reported before but found nothing. 
> > 
> > I am not sure if the information I provide suffices. I will 
> > be happy to provide any other information that would help 
> > find out the problem
> > 
> > 
> > Marco P. Maneta
> > University of California, Davis
> > 
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