[Paraview] Vector Glyph with FieldData

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Mind sharing a sample dataset? That'll make things easier.

Thanks
Utkarsh

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:22 AM, ABE Hiroshi <habe36 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am new to the ParaView.
> The software is quite nice and I can use it without any problems in many cases.
> But I get a trouble in rendering 2D vector with my vtk file which contains “Field Data” that is:
>
> # vtk DataFile Version 2.0
> mag.vtk, Created by Freefem++
> ASCII
> DATASET UNSTRUCTURED_GRID
> POINTS 46764 float
> …
> FIELD FieldData 1
> mag.field 2 94956 float
> 2.45639014e+00 -6.87174034e+00 1.62697911e+00 -8.08913136e+00
> …
>
> This is actually 2D FEM magnetic field data (Hx, Hy) produced by FreeFem++.
>
> Loading the vtk file(mag.vtk) to ParaView and I can see “mag.field” in the ParaView’s menu and “Magnitude/X/Y” next to the menu.
> Then select “mag.vtk” in Pipeline Browser and click Glyph icon in the ParaView menu to see some weird Arrow in RenderView window.
> I expect something in “Vectors” in "Active Attributes” in “Properties” panel but the menu is empty.
>
> I would be really obliged if you could tell me the missing things in my procedure to show vector field with Arrow Glyph.
>
> My Env. is :
>
> iMac 21.5 inch Late 2013 (16GB main memory, Core i5 2.9GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M)
> Mac OS X 10.9.5
> ParaView 4.3.1 64 bit
>
> And I have some documents,
>
> ParaViewTutorial42.pdf
> TheParaViewGuide-v4.3-CC-Edition.pdf
>
> ABE Hiroshi
>  from Tokorozawa, JAPAN
>
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