Questions tagged [paraview]

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application.

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView’s batch processing capabilities.

ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of exascale size as well as on laptops for smaller data.

It uses as the visualization engine.

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How to set Timestep in vtk-file(s) to visualize in Paraview

Sorry this might be quite a simple question but I'm new to this so I'll just ask straight away. I want to visualize data in paraview, therefore I created a vtk file containing Structured Points with Point data= Vectors. This works good for one…
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Paraview rotate fields

I am using Paraview 5.0.1. If any solution requires updating, I can try. I want to programmatically obtain field plots (and corresponding PlotOverLine) of displacements and stresses in rotated coordinate systems. What are…
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paraFoam command is not working

I recently started using Ubuntu for learning OpenFoam and I'm currently using this tutorial for learning http://files.the-foam-house5.webnode.es/200000361-e64a0e745a/Chapter2_Plates.pdf I followed the tutorial up until section 2.3.3 and placed the…
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How to just change the surface appearance of the transform object in paraview?

I have a triangular sphere surface with two scalars on every point. In paraview, I transform the surface and get two new triangular spheres, see the following figure: I want to change the colormap of the third one, but paraview will also change the…
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Point/Cell selection in paraview using coordinates, for script

I am actually developping a small script for making an automatic postprocessing of the output data of my simulation using Paraview. I want to select a specific point/cell and then make a plot over time. Since I want the point to be an input given to…
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Paraview: View a 2D Projection of a 3D object

Are there any options to get a 2D projection of the following 3D bone as shown below in Paraview? The 2D projection contour line could look like the following (picture shown as an example, please ignore the projection plane):
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Paraview: represent as vector field

I've got a VTK file with a regular grid on which I have a vector field F (Fx, Fy and Fy) and a scalar field (G). I would like to do a "quiver plot" as the following picture, but in 3D. Is it possible ? After this, I would like to wrap the field G…
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Cannot import matplotlib in Paraview

I am trying to make a figure using matplotlib in Paraview as discussed on page 73 of the user manual. I am running Paraview 5.2.0 64-bit on Windows 10. A minimal example is: def setup_data(view): pass def render(view, width, height): from…
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How to read Ansys data files in ParaView?

Anybody knows how to export an Ansys structural data file to ParaView? It is read that ParaView has an Ansys reader, but it does not work. Errors always come up when loading the *.inp file. Is there any script to convert .inp files to .vtk? Thanks
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Segmentation Fault when using vtkPolyLine in custom Paraview Filter

I want to display multiple sets of 3D points using vtkPolyLine. The points are stored as Nodes(custom class) in a multidimensional vector: vector > criticalLines; where a node has: double posX; double posY; double posZ; to store…
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How do I visualize XYZ+Field volume data, stored in a simple table, in Paraview?

For rather long time I've used to work in Goldensoftware Surfer/Voxler. In this programs it's very easy to visualise table data. The scheme looks like this: data input (on this step I can specify x, y, z and a component - some physical field…
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VTK apply translation and rotation to vtkImageData

I'm using VTK+Paraview to produce some nice images for a presentation. My problem is the following: I have a sequence of camera poses with the corresponding grayscale images and I'd like to visualize them in 3D space. For the camera I use a cone and…
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Resample point source to image data in ParaView

How to resample a polygonal mesh containing just points (in one cell -> Point Source) to an image data set in ParaView. I am using the Resample to Image filter from the upcoming ParaView version 5.2. All resampled data arrays have a range of [0,0]…
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how to include time from c++ code to ASCII vtk files for paraView animation

I print out data from C/C++ simulation code to vtk files at each time step. I create numbered data files (e.g. data.000.vtk, data.001.vtk, …). I am having trouble with including the time from each calculation step in these vtk files that contains…
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Describing 5 dimensional hdf5 matrix with Xdmf

I have a 5 dimensional matrix in an hdf5 data file. I would like to plot this data using paraview. The solution I have in mind is describing the data via the Xdmf Format. The 5 dimensional matrix is structured as…
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