Marco, That sounds like a good idea. Let me know if you need help. You may be able to get by by "exploding" blocks in a multiblock dataset since in most cases, a large mechanical model may come into ParaView as several blocks in a multiblock dataset rather than a single dataset.
Utkarsh On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Marco Nawijn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Utkarsh, > > Thanks a lot for these nice and instructive blog posts. This is a very > useful capability for me. > > As a side note, an additional nice feature would be, to create an exploded > view in Paraview > based on the values corresponding to the categorical color maps. Something > like > the shrink filter, but than not by cell, but by group of cells. This is a > very useful > feature for visualization of large mechanical assemblies (like aerospace > structures). > Is this possible, and if not, would it be difficult to implement. I would > like to give it > a shot and contribute the code if it works properly. (I just checked out the > paraview/vtk course list and I am considering enlisting for them. So an > writing an > explode filter for grouped cells might be a nice excersise :) ). > > Thanks again and looking forward to other blog posts from Kitware! > > Marco > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> ...and the final post in this series in now online as well: >> >> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/582 >> >> I think that should cover most of it. Let me know if there are things >> that anyone finds lacking or could be improved. >> >> Utkarsh >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Folks, >> > >> > Next post in this series in now available on the blog: >> > >> > http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/578 >> > >> > This time, we take a look at adding annotations. >> > >> > Utkarsh >> > >> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> >> >> I just posted an introductory blog post on using the new color map >> >> editor panel in the upcoming ParaView 4.1. Give it a read if you have >> >> any questions about this panel. The post just covers the basics. I >> >> plan on a couple more to cover annotations and categorical colors in >> >> the near future. Any feedback to improve the >> >> post/documentation/functionality is, as always, welcome. >> >> >> >> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/573 >> >> >> >> Utkarsh >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
