[Paraview] Problem in creating slice from vtkMultiBlockDataSet with cell data

[OSHIMA Takuya]

Thanks indeed for the suggestion. I'm clearly slicing overlapped
datasets so the extract block filter will be a good friend...

Takuya

From: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Problem in creating slice from vtkMultiBlockDataSet with cell data
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:40:23 -0400

> The problem is that all blocks in the mutliblock dataset are being 
> sliced resulting in overlapping slices and hence the shuffling colors. 
> To see that all the blocks are indeed being sliced, change the 
> representation style of the "Slice" filter to "Outline"; you should see 
> the outline for the blocks in the sliced output.
> 
> It is not possible to choose which block to slice for a slice filter. 
> The way to slice only the volume data is exactly what you've done, use 
> the extract block filter to extract the block and then slice it.
> 
> Utkarsh