[Paraview] Problems getting Vector plots ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Dec 12 19:22:35 EST 2009


On 12/12/09 17:28, Samuel Key wrote:
> William,
>
> Use the Glyph filter.
>
> Sam Key
>
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>
>> .... I am trying to use Paraview to view results from a
>> Control-Volume CFD code (all variables calculated & stored at cell
>> centers). After (apparently) whiffing w/ the legacy VTK ASCII format,
>> I added some code to write out an XML file (also legacy VTK) w/ the
>> grid & solution quantities. I can get it successfully imported into
>> Paraview (3.2.1 & 3.6.1.fc11) & see the grid & any raster plots
>> (Gouraud) of various scalars, as well as velocity magnitude. I can't
>> figure out how to get vector plots, however, & haven't (yet) located
>> an example somewhere on the website. Any pointers on that topic ? TIA
>> for your time & any clues.
>>
>>



Thanks for the pointer, that did some good, however the 'vectors' seem 
to only involve 1 component (X-direction) .... & all are positive (wrong 
for this data. Ring any bells :-) ? TIA ....


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