[Paraview] Display user-defined point and cell IDs from Ensight6 file as labels

[Alberto Luaces]

Manuel González writes:

> Hi,
>
> I need to display (as labels) the user-defined point IDs and cell IDs in ASCII Ensight6 geometry files. These IDs are neither zero-based nor contiguous.
>
> Ensight does it correctly, but Paraview displays zero-based contiguous IDs instead of the user-defined IDs given in the file.
> The user-defined IDs neither show in the spreadsheet view of Paraview.

>From VTK/IO/EnSight/vtkEnSight6Reader.cxx, line 1752, it can be seen
that VTK discards explicit ids (the first element on the line):

 if (!(sscanf(line, " %*d %d %d %d", &intIds[0], &intIds[1],...

Does VTK support unstructured IDs on cells?

-- 
Alberto