On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Junchao Zhang <junchao.zh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I usually dump a mesh into a GMVIO file and then view it with ParaView.
> Suppose I find a cell is weird and want to examine it in debugger. I can
> get the cell ID in ParaView, which I guess is a sequential number for
> active elements. Then, how can I locate the cell (get the pointer to it) in
> debugger? Suppose we use ReplicatedMesh.
>

The cell number in Paraview (make sure you select GlobalElementId, not
PedigreeElementID) is typically off-by-one (libmesh is zero-based, Exodus
is one-based) from the numbering in libmesh when you are using
ReplicatedMesh, unless renumbering happens in your simulation, then all
bets are off...

-- 
John
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