[Paraview] Is it possible to store the model of the glyphs in Paraview as a single mesh?

[Cory Quammen]

Great, thanks for following up, Magnus.

Cory

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Magnus Elden <magnus_elden at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am not trying to open it again in another Paraview client. I want the 3D
> model so that I can use it in 3D modeling programs like Blender, Maya etc.
>
> This is the example vectors I have visualized: http://puu.sh/rXLJj/
> 9a685c656d.png
>
> Each glyph consists of 9 vertices and a bunch of surface data. Let us say
> there are 100 glyphs in total. I want to export all 100 glyphs as one
> object. One static mesh. This static mesh will then have 900 vertices.
>
>
>
> And as you said, I was able to export it as .ply and it works. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Magnus Elden
>
>
>
> *From:* Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quammen at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 27 October, 2016 15:46
> *To:* Magnus Elden <magnus_elden at hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Is it possible to store the model of the glyphs
> in Paraview as a single mesh?
>
>
>
> Magnus,
>
>
>
> ParaView state files are your best bet for saving everything in your
> visualization so you can come back to it at another time or even move it to
> another machine. Note that the state file is an XML file separate from your
> data files.
>
>
>
> Other options OBJ, PLY, and VRML should save most of the surface
> properties in your visualization. Some might be missing, however, as there
> is a not a one-to-one mapping from visualization capabilities in ParaView
> to what can be saved in those file types.
>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Cory
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Magnus Elden <magnus_elden at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a series of flowfields I visualize using paraview. This works great
> and is easy to understand, but I would like to extract a single frame as a
> single model. Is this possible?
>
>
>
> It can be any 3D file type that allow me to store the colour and shape as
> it appears in the Paraview client. A solution using the editor or a
> solution using the paraview python scripts are both fine.
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Magnus Elden
>
>
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