[Paraview] Export cut data, really stupid question

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com
Tue Apr 5 08:13:49 EDT 2005


Charles Crosby wrote:
> I'm a bit embarrassed to ask this question, because it should be simple, 
> but I can't figure out how to do this ...  Starting from an OpenFoam CFD 
> solution, I reduce the 3D data in ParaView so that I have only the 
> surface of a wing, now I cut the wing with a plane and I end up with a 
> curve (i.e. a "wing section") which has got the info I need (pressure, 
> etc.) that I can display as a nicely coloured graphic.  Now I would like 
> to plot the values (e.g. pressure vs. x) as a really simple graph.  
> Exporting the data would be nice, but there does not seem to be a 
> simple, flat csv type of file export available.  Any suggestions?

Charles,

	As far as I know there is no such functionality. The only thing you can 
do (if you use ParaView from latest 2.0 branch) is to use probe filter. 
I recently added the ability to export the XYPlot to a CSV file.

HTH
Mathieu


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