[Paraview] Display objects with labels

[David E DeMarle]

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Alexander Grayver
<agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de> wrote:
> David,
>
> Unfortunately I don't quite follow your idea.
> Let's say I have this csv file:
>
> 2268.113314,5643.431169,200.05,r1c
> 2458.113314,5529.431169,200.05,r2s
> 2639.113314,5430.431169,200.05,r3c
> 2880.113314,5306.431169,200.05,r4s
> 3280.113314,5175.431169,200.05,r5c
> 3463.113314,5182.431169,200.05,r6s
> 3621.113314,5092.431169,200.05,r7c
> 4050.113314,5363.431169,200.05,r8s
> 4229.113314,5427.431169,200.05,r9c
> 4596.113314,5316.431169,200.05,r10s
>
> So last column contains labels of points.
> I load this to paraview and using TableToPoints filter display points.
> What to do to show labels?
>
>
> On 19.03.2012 15:01, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>
>> The labels don't have to be indexes, you can choose any of the
>> attribute arrays on the cells or points to show. If one of the arrays
>> contains string names, those will show up just fine.
>>
>> Like Nehme indicates, there are ways to choose what to show exactly, but
>> you
>> have to be creative with your filters and selections to do so. And
>> yes, the interface to labeling in ParaView is hackish.
>>
>> It comes up on the mailing list frequently, but unfortunately no one
>> has yet had the time to make a good text label representation and
>> GUI for it in ParaView.
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Alexander Grayver
>> <agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Nehme,
>>>
>>> Thank you, but this is a bit like a hack. Moreover, if I have 1000 of
>>> points
>>> in this way you can label them by index, but they have more meaningful
>>> names
>>> actually. It would be nice if there exists another way to do that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19.03.2012 14:23, Nehme Bilal wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Alexander,
>>>>
>>>> If your names or labels are points of cells properties, try using the
>>>> "selection inspector" to display the labels. You just select
>>>> everything and turn on labeling in the selection inspector gui.
>>>> You can also select only the parts where you want to see the labels.
>>>> If you don't want your labels to show up on all the points or cells,
>>>> you replace the labels with an empty string ("") at the locations
>>>> where you want nothing to be displayed.
>>>>
>>>> There might be newer and easier ways of achieving the same that I am
>>>> not aware of.
>>>>
>>>> Nehme
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Alexander Grayver
>>>> <agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a set of points and polylines. Each has its own name or label.
>>>>> The
>>>>> question is how to represent this data such that I could visualize them
>>>>> with
>>>>> names shown next to the object on the screen?
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Alexander
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>>> Alexander
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander
>

Select Points and draw to select everything

Views->Selection Inspector

At bottom of the dialog, turn show labels on and choose the array that
contains the "r??" values.