[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Volume and the Find Data or Calculator

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

The native GUI calculator doesn't support such features. We created
the Python calculator to a support such functions with ease. We should
investigate making function discovery easy for the Python calculator
for sure.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Sweet!  Thanks, I have been asked for that for ages.
>
> So, why isn't that natively in the GUI calculator?  Is the calculator where it belongs?  Mind if I add a feature request, targeted for 4.4?
>
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 7:54 PM
> To: Scott, W Alan
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Volume and the Find Data or Calculator
>
> Try "volume(inputs[0])" as the expression for Python calculator to compute a "Cell Data" result. That should give you volume for each cell in the dataset.
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> Is it possible to find the volume of each cell, and create a new
>> variable with this information?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
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