[Paraview] Filter cell type from PolyData VTK file

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Nothing that I am aware of. You could potentially write a filter that
coverts the cell type to an cell data attribute and then you could
threshold by that -- but that's not much different than what you're
already doing.


Utkarsh

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Viktor Sip <viktor.sip at centrum.cz> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> is there a way to filter and show only a specific cell type?
>
> In my application I am exporting a PolyData VTK file containing some Polys
> and Lines. When imported into Paraview, both Polys and Lines are shown, and
> I did not find a simple way to show only Polys.
> What I can do is to export additional CellData array with a number
> specifying cell type and then apply Treshold in Paraview. However that seems
> redundant, as the type is already stored in the file somewhere.
> So my question is, is there a direct way?
>
> Simplified example of the exported VTK file is attached.
>
> Kind regards,
> Viktor
>
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