[Paraview] view 8-node quad mesh

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Mon Nov 4 09:06:25 EST 2013


The data file you attached doesn't have quads, it indeed has
triangles. If you look at the values for "types" array for cells in
the file. It's 5 which corresponds to triangles. How was the file
generated?



Utkarsh

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Ning Guo <hhh.guo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now I have a problem to view 8-node quad mesh in vtk file. The mesh
> (wireframe) is displayed as triangles rather than quads. It seems there is a
> similar issue reported in
>
> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2011-September/022599.html
>
> But I don't know how to solve it. I'm using 4.0.1 64bit version with 'Use
> Multi-Core' option switched off. An example vtk file is attached.
>
> Ning
>
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