[Paraview] Polyhedron Cells

[Brad King]

Brian Dotson wrote:
> I am working with a group of folks that are developing computational
> fluid dynamics (CFD) software.  They plan on using an unstructured grid
> with polyhedron cells.  We have done some preliminary tests by creating
> unstructured grids with polyhedron (ConvexPointSet) cells in the vtk
> file format.  This method works, but when the cell counts are large, it
> can take minutes for Paraview to load the data.  I tried the same data
> that was meshed with tetrahedrons and it loaded within a few seconds.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can speed the load time up when
> loading large polyhedron data sets?

Are you using the .vtu file format (new VTK XML format) or a .vtk file 
(legacy VTK format)?

-Brad