[Paraview] vtk mesh display: no volume elements

[David E DeMarle]

The standard rendering pipeline behind surface, wireframe and points
representations extracts the external polygons before rendering. Apply the
extract edges, shrink, or glyph filters to see internal elements and nodes.
On Feb 27, 2013 5:08 AM, "Zenker, Dr. Matthias" <
Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I want to inspect a mesh generated with gmsh. To this end, I have saved
> the mesh in vtk format and opened it with ParaView. The problem is that I
> don’t see any volume element (or their nodes) in the display, no matter
> what mode (Points, Wireframe, …) I choose. If I try “Volume”, I get the
> message: “Cannot volume render since no point (or cell) data available.”
> I have attached a small example. As far as I see with a text editor, there
> **are** tetrahedra (elements with 4 nodes) in the file. So why doesn’t
> ParaView show them?
> I use ParaView 3.89.0-RC3 (32 bit) under Windows XP.
>
> Thank you for a helpful hint…
>
> Matthias
>
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