[Paraview] Finding element number in the diagram

[Karen Lee]

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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