<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you Richard.<div><br></div><div>Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get anything…</div><div>Once I've built the vector as U_X*iHat+U_Y*jHat+U_Z*kHat with the calculator, what should I do? Also, as my velocity is 0 on the surface, I think this vector I built equals (0,0,0) everywhere… Isn't it?<br><div><div><br></div><div><img id="f2f17ea3-23df-4435-8f62-bccf23ee3990" height="418" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DD6C8F35-6E10-4520-AD0D-42B5531E7DEA"></div><div><br></div><div>Il giorno 28/mar/2012, alle ore 14:58, Richard GRENON ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello.<br><br>For an oilflow visualisation you should use the "Surface LIC" view mode.<br><br>First, you have to load this plugin at first start of Paraview: menu "Tools -> Manage plugins", select the "SurfaceLIC" plugin, and press the "Load selected" button as on image 1. You may also want to select the + sign before the "SurfaceLIC" line to show its sub-options and select "Auto load". Then you will not have to load the plugin again each time you start Paraview.<br><br>Then you need to build a surface object having a vector variable. If you have only scalar components vx, vy, vz of the vector, use the Calculator Filter to build the vector from its components writing a formula such as vx*iHat+vy*jHat+vz*kHat.<br><br>Then select the SurfaceLIC representation as on image 2<br><br>You also may want to set some LIC parameters in the Display tab of the selected object such as the vector variable to be used or other parameters.<br><br>Richard.<br><br>-- <br>Richard GRENON<br>ONERA<br>Departement d'Aerodynamique Appliquee - DAAP/ACI<br>8 rue des Vertugadins<br>92190 MEUDON - FRANCE<br>phone : +33 1 46 73 42 17<br>fax : +33 1 46 73 41 46<br><a href="mailto:Richard.Grenon@onera.fr">mailto:Richard.Grenon@onera.fr</a><br>http://www.onera.fr<br><br><span><SurfaceLic_1.png></span><span><SurfaceLIC_2.png></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>