I'm not sure this is exactly what you want but you can select a point/cell and then go to selection inspector and go to the point label/cell label tab and toggle the visible button to show selected point or cell ids. The selection inspector also allows you to "select cells that include the selected points".<br>
<br>Hope this helps.<br>Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Karen Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kylkaren@gmail.com">kylkaren@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Paraview users and developers,<br><br>I'm interested in finding the element number (ID) that's closest to, or containing a given point, or by clicking on the element itself in the diagram (2D cut of a 3D mesh). This seems to be a simple question but I haven't figured out. Can someone pls help?<br>
<br>thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Karen<br>
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