[Paraview] Tube Filter for ExodusII-BEAM

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Hmm, I'm not sure you have access to the element attribute or block
properties within ParaView. ParaView is really optimized for reading
results data.

Dave, do you know if there is a way to get at this information from an
Exodus file?

-Ken



On 8/26/13 12:24 PM, "KASSBOHM" <kassbohm at fiziko.de> wrote:

>Hi again, Ken,
>
>sorry, maybe I hit the "send"-key a bit too early... In regards to my
>previous 
>question:
>
>In Paraview: I still can't find a handle to the properties or attributes
>of my 
>exo-BEAM-blocks. Where do I have access to properties/attributes?
>
>I tried to find an answer in your "The ParaView Tutorial" and also in the
>PV-Wiki - but haven't found any answer yet.
>
>Do I have access to properties or attributes defined via exodusii-API at
>all? I 
>mean: In Paraview?
>
>Cheers,
>Sven
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>
>> There is a filter called "Tube" that you can use to turn lines into
>>tubes.
>> The tube filter also has the ability to vary the radius of the tubes
>>based
>> on a scalar. The Tube filter expects poly data not unstructured data, so
>> you will have to pass your data through the Extract Surface filter
>>first.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/26/13 7:59 AM, "KASSBOHM" <kassbohm at fiziko.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using exodusii and Paraview.
>>>
>>> In my exo-file, I store blocks of type BEAM. Each BEAM-block has its
>>>own
>>> "attributes" - such as area, orientation etc. .
>>>
>>> In Paraview: I see those beams as "lines". But I would like to see them
>>> in 3D,
>>> i.e. as tubes or so.
>>>
>>> How can I use the "attributes" of the beams to generate 3D tubes or so
>>>in
>>> Paraview?
>>>
>>> What options do I have?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sven
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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