[Paraview] Project polygon onto surface

[postgurke at web.de]

Hi Adam

I think the Slice Along Polyline Filter is what you need. Just select the data
set and the poly line in the window popping up and then proceed in the
properties section as usual.

Cheers
Venke



> Adam Dershowitz <adershowitz at exponent.com> hat am 25. Oktober 2016 um 16:01
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Is there a way to project a 2D, or 3D polygon onto a surface.
> Specifically I have some elevation data, that is displaying fine.  But the
> data has a lot of vertical variation.  I have a polygon that represents the
> boundaries of different regions.  So, the polygon is effectively 2D.
>  Although, I can give it a 3D values as well.
> The difficulty is that I can know the elevation of the corners, but the lines
> between those corners often drop "underground".
> So I would like to project the 2D (or 3D) polygon region onto the 3D ground
> elevation.
> You can think of this as having a topo map and I want to show the lines around
> an individual piece of property.
> Is there a filter that can do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Adam
> 
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