[Paraview] How to Glyph my own Triangle Normal Calculations

[Moreland, Kenneth]

The glyph filter will only work on point data.  Try running the "Cell
Centers" filter and glyph the result of that.


-Ken

On 1/9/13 7:47 AM, "Michael Jackson" <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:

>I have some code that I am working on where I am calculating normals for
>triangles. I am trying to verify the calculation by visualizing the data
>in ParaView. I am writing a "Legacy" vtk file of type POLYDATA. I have a
>section in the CELL_DATA that starts out:
>
>NORMALS SurfaceMeshTriangleNormals double
>
>When I load the data in ParaView I "see" that there is Cell Data called
>SurfaceMeshTriangleNormals that has 3 components. When I select the
>"Glyph" filter the SurfaceMeshTriangleNormals do not show up in any of
>the drop down combo boxes. If I use the "Normal Glyphs" filter isn't
>ParaView calculating its own normals? I don't want that.
>
>I also tried replacing the "NORMALS" with "VECTORS" but that did not help.
>
>This is with ParaView 3.14.1 (Custom Built) on OS X 10.6.8.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help or pointers on what I am doing wrong.
>___________________________________________________________
>Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
>BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
>mike.jackson at bluequartz.net              www.bluequartz.net
>
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