[Paraview] How to stop ParaView from triangulating imported cells

[Pieter Barendrecht]

In addition, I'd like to stress that the 'Surface with Edges' display mode is the one I use most often. Displaying the actual cells (i.e. the quadrilaterals) in this mode would be really useful!

Best,
Pieter

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:17:36 +0200 
Pieter Barendrecht <p.j.barendrecht at student.tue.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering how to prevent ParaView from (visually) triangulating the imported cells. To illustrate the problem, I attached a minimal example (2.3 kB) to this email. It contains a heavily discretized version of a parametric surface, consisting of 20 cells (quads). 
> 
> These quads are in fact non-planar, so I understand why ParaView triangulates them for plotting purposes. However, when I export the scene as an .x3d file, it actually exports the triangles instead of the quads.
> 
> Two questions:
> - Is it possible to display the edges of the actual cells (i.e. the quads) in ParaView (i.e. in 'WireFrame' mode or in 'Surface with Edges' mode)
> - Is it possible to export the actual cells instead of these triangles
> 
> Best regards,
> Pieter