[Paraview] clip filter not cutting through elements

Dominik Szczerba domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
Wed Dec 7 06:07:37 EST 2005


Wow :)
Thank you for this excelent example on how to extend paraview.
regards,
Dominik

Jean M. Favre wrote:
> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>I would like to have a clip filter that optionally doesnt cut through
>>the elements but rather remove/preserve (whole) elements. Is there a way
>>to do it in the current version?
>>regards,
>>Dominik
> 
> 
> I will paraphrase my friend Berk: "it is just a GUI issue"
> 
> VTK already implements what you want in the vtkExtractGeometry. You only
> have to make ParaView aware of it with the following XML. Just use
> Import Package to load the XML file.
> 
> Once imported, you have a new Filter called "Extract Geometry". Check
> the two buttons "Extract Boundary Cells" and "Extract Only Boundary
> Cells" and you will have the plane, sphere and box clipping showing
> whole cells.
> 
> I include the (xml and pvsm files) to import. Tested under Windows and
> Linux for ParaView 2.4 and 2.5.
> 

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