[Paraview] Displaying an unstructured grid of tetrahedra

[Michael Jackson]

Thanks everyone for the help. I'll run the filter and examine what is presented.
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

> Yes.  All the display modes except volume rendering show only things on
> the external surface. If you want to see that interior point, you can run
> the extract edges filter to show all of the edges or run the glyph filter
> using a 2D glyph of type vertex.
> 
> -Ken
> 
> 
> On 10/12/11 9:49 AM, "Michael Jackson" <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to visualize the output from some volume meshing code. The
>> output is a bunch of Tetrahedra. When I load the file in paraview
>> (3.12.0rc2) I see the surface just fine but I do not "see" any thing
>> connected to the single interior node. I have checked the file by hand
>> using pencil and paper and the file seems to be formed correctly. When
>> ParaView is viewing a dataset in "Surface mode" does it leave out the
>> interior nodes or am I just missing something basic? Here is the data
>> file:
>> 
>> # vtk DataFile Version 2.0
>> Generated Volume Mesh
>> ASCII
>> DATASET UNSTRUCTURED_GRID
>> POINTS 10 float
>> 0 0 1
>> 1 0 1
>> 1 0 0
>> 0 0 0
>> 0 1 1
>> 1 1 1
>> 1 1 0
>> 0 1 0
>> 0.5 1.5 0.5
>> 0.5625 0.6875 0.5625
>> CELLS 13 65
>> 4 7 9 8 6
>> 4 6 9 8 5
>> 4 5 9 8 4
>> 4 5 9 4 0
>> 4 4 9 8 7
>> 4 6 9 5 2
>> 4 4 9 7 0
>> 4 7 9 6 2
>> 4 2 9 5 1
>> 4 1 0 5 9
>> 4 0 1 2 9
>> 4 2 9 0 7
>> 4 0 3 2 7
>> CELL_TYPES 13
>> 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
>> BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
>> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net              www.bluequartz.net
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