Hi Vincent,
Try Cell Centers filter. Maybe normals are mapped to points (generated at cell centers). Next applying Glyph filter and you may get expected results. Magician On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:00, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:14:53 +0100 > From: Vincent Leroy <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Paraview] How to display normals, INPUT from a VTK file in > Paraview ? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > Hi, > > I am a new user of Paraview. I am facing a problem I cannot solve and I > have not found any relevant practice on the internet (guide user, > mailing, ...)... I want to visualise my mesh with normals specified IN > MY VTK FILE (and NOT the Normals Glyphs calculated by the software) (I > have these normals calculations in another code and I do not want to > change that). > > I am importing a mesh in Paraview from a VTK file. The VTK file contains > the following elements: > > # vtk DataFile Version 2.0 > hydrodynamic vtk mesh for paraview vizu > ASCII > DATASET POLYDATA > POINTS 458 float > x0 y0 z0 (points coordinates) > > ... ... ... > > ....... > > POLYGONS 465 2325 > > 4 n1 n2 n3 n4 (points IDs) > > 4 ... ... ... ... > > ...... > > CELL_DATA 465 > > NORMALS cell_normals float > > ... ... ... (normals coordinates) > > A 'cell_normals' array appears in 'Information'; I am able to color the > surface (each cell) of the mesh according to the values of the > cell_normals array (Magnitude, X, Y or Z) but nothing more. This gives > me information on the normals orientation but I have no visual on the > vectors. > > How is it possible de visualise these normals (displayed as vectors) on > Paraview without calculating them with the software? What is the correct > pratice ? I need to know if they are well oriented, I also need some > visual on the mesh I am studying. > > Thanks a lot, > > Best regards. > > -- > > Vincent _______________________________________________ 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
