[Paraview] Plotting only some blocks of a vtkMultiBlockDataSet

[Dorier, Matthieu]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Matthieu
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From: Utkarsh Ayachit [utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 10:56 AM
To: Dorier, Matthieu
Cc: Paraview (paraview at paraview.org)
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Plotting only some blocks of a vtkMultiBlockDataSet

Have you tried using the "Extract Block" filter? You can use that to
extract out the block of interest.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Dorier, Matthieu <mdorier at anl.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a parallel, Catalyst-enabled simulation exposing its data using a
> vtkMultiBlockDataSet.
> Each block in this dataset is a vtkRectilinearGrid.
>
> Each of the n processes handles k blocks (same number of blocks in each
> process).
> I used the sample script provided with ParaView to write an output of my
> adaptor so that I can then generate an actual visualization pipeline using
> ParaView with this output as source.
>
> My question is: how can I ask ParaView to plot only one of the blocks (for
> debugging purpose; my mesh does not currently look like what it should and I
> suspect a problem in the way I compute the coordinates of each block's
> vertices, as a function of the process rank and block id).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthieu
>
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