[Paraview] Finite Element Data visualization

[fred]

Kent Eschenberg a écrit :
> Hom Nath GHARTI wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would be grateful if anybody can provide me the format for the 
>> visualization of finite element data in paraview, say 8 noded 
>> quadrilateral meshes with scalar values at each nodes.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Hom  Nath
>
> Welcome to the club! In general the steps are:
>
> 1) Get the data into the vis application
> 2) Decide what you want to find out about the data
> 3) Pick the visualization method that works with 1 and 2
>
> At what stage are you? Does your FE program produce data in one of the 
> formats understood by ParaView (see web page for a list of formats)?
My 2 cents tips.

If you want to use VTK file format, I think you have to use the vtkUnstructuredGrid format (see http://www.*vtk*.org/pdf/*file*-*format*s.pdf) wich has the vtkHexahedron cell type.

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