[Paraview] measure of distance between two points

[Berk Geveci]

That sounds like a good idea. I'd suggest adding a request.

-berk

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Pierre JUILLARD
<pierre.juillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Berk,
>
> Thanks. That is actually perfect!
> The spreadsheet idea was just because I was too much in a
> pipeline/filter-like thinking mode (with outputs absolutely availabe for
> future re-use).
>
> Just an additional question: is there a way to have some kind of magnetism
> with already displayed existing nodes (maybe available with a box to
> activate or not)?
> That is to say, when grabing one of the node with the mouse and moving it,
> having a control of its position with respect to the position of other
> displayed existing node, and if coming close to one, gluing it to this close
> one.
>
> If not, I may add a feature request.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre
>
>
>
> 2009/2/11 Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
>>
>> Yes and no. You can measure the distance between two points using the
>> ruler source. Currently, the value cannot be display in the
>> spreadsheet. We should probably change the source to produce a single
>> value in a table. Feel free to post a feature request at
>> http://paraview.org/Bug
>>
>> ps. You can select the position of the two end points by using the 'p'
>> key while inside the 3D view.
>>
>> -berk
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Pierre JUILLARD
>> <pierre.juillard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have been searching for help in the previous posts, but I couldn't
>> > find an
>> > answer, even if the question has already been asked
>> > (http://www.mail-archive.com/paraview@paraview.org/msg00990.html):
>> > Is there a way in ParaView to measure a distance between two nodes (with
>> > a
>> > result that could then be displayed in the spreadsheet view, why not)?
>> >
>> > I thank you in advance for your help.
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Pierre
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