[Paraview] points selection

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

You may want to generate a GlobalIDs array and the select using the global ids.

Utkarsh

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Sergei D. <sj2001 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> How to select a points by my own ids, not vtkOriginalPointIds?
> I have a time series vtk-files with unstructured grid. I need to selet a
> points in some location and track its along time.
> Number of selected points is about 1000 (so, it is a cloud). The problem is
> that the points are added and removed during simulation, and their
> vtkOriginalPointIdsat different times may be different. Results is that a
> tracked points is not a original selected points. But I have a my point ids
> in vtk-files as a data.  So, I can use Find Data with a query "id is one
> from ...". But I need about 1000 points so it is hard to use this way. In
> order to extract the point ids for the query I must: select a points on some
> location, do ExtractSelection filter, export ExtractSelection data from a
> table to a file, extract my ids from this file, insert extracted ids to a
> query...
> Is there a better way?
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
> Sergei D.
>
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