ParaView only supports volume rendering point data for 3D uniform grid datasets. You can apply a cell-data-to-point-data filter and the then volume render.
Utkarsh On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:55 AM, pratik <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > I loaded a scalar data (defined on a 3d grid) into paraview 3.10.1. When i > try to change "Representation" to "Volume", i get the error: > > Cannot volume render since no point (or cell) data available. > > But this can't be true since the "Information" tab shows that: > > Statistics: > type:Image(Uniform Rectilinear Grid) > Number of Cells: 2048383 > Number of Points: 2146689 > Memory: 1.6e+02 MB > and the data arrays do show the 2 dataitems that i read in; a scalar data S > and a tensor data Q > > hmm..any ideas on why this is happening? Thanks in advance for the help. > > pratik > > P.S; I'll post part of the XDMF file here: > <?xml version="1.0" ?> > <!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []> > <Xdmf> > <Domain Name="NemTens"> > <Grid Name="NemTensTime" GridType="Collection" > CollectionType="Temporal"> > > <Grid Name="NemTensValues" GridType="Uniform"> > <Time Value= "0" /> > <Topology TopologyType="3DCoRectMesh" Dimensions="128 > 128 128 9 "/> > <Geometry GeometryType="ORIGIN_DXDYDZ"> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="3" > Format="XML">0.0 0.0 0.0</DataItem> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="3" > Format="XML">0.1 0.1 0.1</DataItem> > </Geometry> > <Attribute Name="S" Center="Cell" AttributeType="Scalar" > Precision="8"> > <DataItem Format="HDF" NumberType="Float" > Dimensions="128 128 128" Precision="8"> > analtest.h5:/S_00000000 > </DataItem> > </Attribute> > <Attribute Name="Q" Center="Cell" > AttributeType="Tensor" Precision="8"> > <DataItem Format="HDF" NumberType="Float" > Dimensions="128 128 128 9" Precision="8"> > Q.h5:/Q/Q_00000000 > </DataItem> > </Attribute> > </Grid> > </Grid> > </Domain> > </Xdmf> > > this is for the first timestep only > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
