[Paraview] Coordinates and normal vectors

[Berk Geveci]

Hey Eric,

Can you report a bug in the issue tracker: http://paraview.org/Bug? Thanks.

-berk


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> The points appear to still be selected, and still show up in the selection
> inspector, but the labels stay where they were and are not updated to the
> current point positions on the screen or currently appropriate label values.
> You then have to change something about the properties in the selection
> inspector pane to get labels to update.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>
>> What does it do currently? Reset the selection?
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> That's a great feature that I'd never noticed before!
>>>
>>> Is there any way to get it to update the labels (using the same
>>> selection)
>>> when switching to a new time point or during an animation?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> Eric E Monson
>>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can select which array to label by in the selection inspector. I
>>>> realized that point coordinates is not an option there. Can you submit
>>>> a feature request here: http://paraview.org.Bug? As a temporary work
>>>> around, you can use the array calculator to copy the point coordinates
>>>> into an attribute. Set the expression to be coords.
>>>>
>>>> -berk
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire
>>>> <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Berk, thanks for your help.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can select cells and points, no problem. The selection inspector
>>>>> helps
>>>>> to
>>>>> bring the labels
>>>>> on the screen (see picture) but I don't see where I can get coordinates
>>>>> ...
>>>>> Where is this selection
>>>>> annotation tool ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> PO
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10-Jun-08, at 9:44 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. Using selection and selection annotation you can do this. Once
>>>>>> you select a set of surface cells, you can turn on labeling in the
>>>>>> Selection Inspector. To get the surface normals, you may have to apply
>>>>>> the surface normals filter first.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -berk
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire
>>>>>> <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been browsing on the net for some time but cannot find the
>>>>>>> answer
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> this question :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Is it possible to display (annotate some text on the screen) to
>>>>>>> show
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> x,y,z components of a) the coordinates of
>>>>>>> some points and b) the components of a normal vector that define a
>>>>>>> plane
>>>>>>> surface ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm using both versions 3.2.1 and 3.3. Please let me know if you have
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> solution to suggest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pierre-Olivier
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> ParaView mailing list
>>>>>>> ParaView at paraview.org
>>>>>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> ParaView mailing list
>>>> ParaView at paraview.org
>>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>>>
>>>
>
>