[Paraview] Viewing a slice as a 2D object

[Burlen Loring]

I'm not sure what you're going for here...a slice is a 2d plane... can 
you give some more detail about what you'd like to accomplish? do you 
mean snap the camera to the plane's normal?

On 06/05/2013 09:31 AM, Pradeep Jha wrote:
> ok, I will try that. But is there no way to look at/analyze a slice as 
> a 2D plane ?
>
>
> 2013/6/6 Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov <mailto:bloring at lbl.gov>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     the first thing that comes to mind is the spreadsheet view which
>     lets you look at numerical values of the data. You can use it in
>     combination with selection to interactively, using the mouse,
>     identify the subset of cells/point you are interested in, all
>     without knowing exact coordinates.
>     http://paraview.org/Wiki/Data_Selection
>
>     Does that help?
>
>     Burlen
>
>
>     On 06/05/2013 01:11 AM, Pradeep Jha wrote:
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     when I extract a slice from a 3D data, how can I look at the
>>     slice as a 2D plane/object? That is to say, how can I do things
>>     like probing, finding the variable value at different points on
>>     the slice without giving its 3D coordinates, because its not
>>     convenient to find out the exact 3D coordinates of points on the
>>     slice.
>>
>>     Thank you
>>
>>
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