<div dir="ltr">Well I guess you said something like this,<div><br></div><div>> This is the way the slice filter works - it creates triangles rather<br>> than quads. I believe<br>> that there is a filter, somewhere, that generates quads for the case<br>
> of (structured<br>> data, planar slice). I'll ask the author of that filter its status.<br><br></div><div>So I thought there is such a filter already in paraview<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Berk Geveci <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> I also tried looking for filters that can create quad cells, but I couldn't<br>
> find it. I would greatly appreciate any help in finding such a filter.<br>
<br>
</div>I am not sure what you mean by this.<br>
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <<a href="mailto:mirzadeh@gmail.com">mirzadeh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Thanks so much for your help guys. As far as Ivo noted I tried the extract<br>
> cells by region filter and that seems to do the work, only the cells are in<br>
> 3D - which kinda make sense because my original data is 3D.<br>
> As a matter of fact I have been able to import my Octree mesh and data into<br>
> Paraview using existing datasets (right now I am using Unstructured) and<br>
> other than the problem with slicing, everything else seems to work fine so<br>
> right now I think I am not in urgent need of native Octree support.<br>
> I also tried looking for filters that can create quad cells, but I couldn't<br>
> find it. I would greatly appreciate any help in finding such a filter.<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Mohammad<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Berk Geveci <<a href="mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi M,<br>
>><br>
>> > I am rather new to paraview and I work in the area of CSE. The typical<br>
>> > meshes that I use to discretize my PDEs over is the 3D Octree data<br>
>> > structure. I was just wondering if anyone is aware of a dedicated<br>
>> > dataset in<br>
>> > paraview to handle such meshes? I can go ahead and export my data in a<br>
>> > way<br>
>> > that can be loaded as an unstructured dataset, but I'd prefer to use a<br>
>> > specific dataset for Octrees.<br>
>><br>
>> We actually have native support for octree datasets - try Sources -><br>
>> Octree Fractal.<br>
>> There has been very little use of this dataset and I found that the<br>
>> reader/writer for<br>
>> it are not enabled. If you are willing to compile ParaView from<br>
>> source, I can make<br>
>> the necessary changes to our development version. Let me know.<br>
>><br>
>> > One more question. When I use, say, a simple structured 3D mesh and use<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > slice filter to generate the corresponding mesh on a surface(through<br>
>> > wireframe) it just shows me some extra diagonal lines on each square<br>
>> > cell,<br>
>> > which it should not.<br>
>><br>
>> This is the way the slice filter works - it creates triangles rather<br>
>> than quads. I believe<br>
>> that there is a filter, somewhere, that generates quads for the case<br>
>> of (structured<br>
>> data, planar slice). I'll ask the author of that filter its status.<br>
>><br>
>> -berk<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <<a href="mailto:mirzadeh@gmail.com">mirzadeh@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > Dear all,<br>
>> > I am rather new to paraview and I work in the area of CSE. The typical<br>
>> > meshes that I use to discretize my PDEs over is the 3D Octree data<br>
>> > structure. I was just wondering if anyone is aware of a dedicated<br>
>> > dataset in<br>
>> > paraview to handle such meshes? I can go ahead and export my data in a<br>
>> > way<br>
>> > that can be loaded as an unstructured dataset, but I'd prefer to use a<br>
>> > specific dataset for Octrees.<br>
>> > One more question. When I use, say, a simple structured 3D mesh and use<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > slice filter to generate the corresponding mesh on a surface(through<br>
>> > wireframe) it just shows me some extra diagonal lines on each square<br>
>> > cell,<br>
>> > which it should not.<br>
>> > Any help will greatly be appreciated.<br>
>> > Best,<br>
>> > -M<br>
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