[Paraview] Finding element number in the diagram

[Karen Lee]

Thanks.

I'm wondering, if I do a 2D cut of a 3D model, will the ID shown be a
number assigned for hte point/element in the 2D plane only? The
coordinates don't seem to match with that of the 3D mode and I've no
way of going the middle of the volume plot and seeing everything
clearly and selecting points from there...

Is there some way I can find the global ID of a given selected point
in a 2D cut?


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:
> Since the selection stuff is somewhat new I'm not sure how it worked in
> 3.6.1.  In the latest version in the selection inspector you can highlight
> cells/points and use delete, delete all, and/or new value to the list of
> selected objects.
>
> You can also play around with the selections in the spreadsheet view
> (there's a green dashed box button widget that will only list selected
> points or cells).  The selections between the spreadsheet view and 3d view
> are connected so selecting in one selects in both.
>
> Andy
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Karen Lee <kylkaren at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I seem to have gotten  it work. However, I'm wondering if there's some
>> setting I can change such that it only gives the cell that contains my point
>> instead of 15 of them...
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Karen Lee <kylkaren at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to follow your instructions, but had some trouble with it. By
>>> fiddling around I got the cell which contains my point of interest (by
>>> location, the point is not a node) to be highlighted. I'm wondering if
>>> there's a way for me to get the Cell ID of the highlighted cell?  I'm using
>>> version 3.6.1.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Karen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure this is exactly what you want but you can select a
>>>> point/cell and then go to selection inspector and go to the point label/cell
>>>> label tab and toggle the visible button to show selected point or cell ids.
>>>> The selection inspector also allows you to "select cells that include the
>>>> selected points".
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Karen Lee <kylkaren at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Paraview users and developers,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm interested in finding the element number (ID) that's closest to, or
>>>>> containing a given point, or by clicking on the element itself in the
>>>>> diagram (2D cut of a 3D mesh). This seems to be a simple question but I
>>>>> haven't figured out. Can someone pls help?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Karen
>>>>>
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