[Paraview] A simple legacy VTK File

[Karl König]

> So my question now becomes: Is there a way to display all the
> cells/points (exterior or not) of the grid, without having to isolate
> each cell of interest?

Load the CSCS Point Sprite Plugin and choose Representation: Point
Sprite. It'll show all 9 points. (You might need to compile ParaView
yourself from source in order to be able to use the plugin.)

Karl


> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com
> <mailto:andy.bauer at kitware.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It's not missing for me.  I loaded the file, selected one of the
>     cells and then used the extract selection filter.  I attached a
>     picture of the result I got which shows the "middle" point.  Also,
>     when I look under the information tab I see 9 total points there as
>     well.
> 
>     How are you expecting the point to appear?  What version of ParaView
>     are you using?
> 
>     Andy
> 
>     On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Panagiotis Foteinos
>     <pafotein at gmail.com <mailto:pafotein at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello all.
> 
>         I am trying to display a simple tetrahedral unstructured grid
>         using Paraview. Strangely, Paraview ignores a point of the grid
>         which is both defined in the POINTS section and used as a vertex
>         by all the tetrahedra/cells.
> 
>         Attached, you will find the vtk file that Paraview fails to
>         display correctly.
> 
>         This file contains 9 points: the 8 vertices of a cube plus the
>         cube's center point (1.5, 1.5, 1,5) which has a vtkIdType equal
>         to 8 (see the file). Also, all the cells in the file are
>         connected to the vtkIdType 8. When I load this file with
>         Paraview, the cube's center (the point with vtkIdType equal to
>         8) is missing.
> 
>         Can anybody know what's happening? Isn't the file correct?
> 
> 
>         Regards,
>         Panagiotis