[Paraview] Smoothing unstructured grid

[Berk Geveci]

You have to extract to surface before you can apply any filters that
work on polygonal data. I can't remember the name by heart, probably
something like "Extract Surface" or Geometry...

-berk

On 2/15/08, Dimitrios Kiousis <dkiousis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently switched from MayaVi to Paraview (and I am glad I did).
> I have a 3D unstructured grid and everything works perfect in Paraview. I
> also managed to solve an 'Extract Cells' problem.
>
> Until a new issue came up. Instead of plotting the facets of my 3D
> hexahedral mesh, I would like a smooth surface. In MayaVi I could (and still
> can) do that by applying the filter 'PolyDataNormals'. I checked the web and
> I found out that in Paraview exists the filter 'Smooth'. However, in my case
> it is de-activated (as the filter 'Normals'). Any ideas why? Should I apply
> some other filter first in order to activate it?
>
> I appreciate any help,
> Dimitris
>
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