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<div>I've been eavesdropping on this thread a bit and am just wondering if the problem is in the database or in the Vis tools?</div>
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<div>I cannot speak for ParaView but I am certain VisIt can display point data just fine without having to create 'connectivity' for the points. What you get amounts to a set of descrete glyphs (boxes, spheres, icosohedrons. . .your choice) where the glyphs
can be colored by one variable and optionally scaled by another. If what you really want is to interpolate between the points, then the data either needs to be resampled or, perhaps, 'connected' using voronoi/dulaney algorithms (both options of which are available
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<div>So, I am just really puzzled why there is any need to create what amounts to meaningless 'connectivity' to satisfy either ParaView or VisIt.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Grindeanu>, "Iulian R." <<a href="mailto:iulian@mcs.anl.gov">iulian@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, February 3, 2015 11:19 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"CORTIS M." <<a href="mailto:michael.cortis@durham.ac.uk">michael.cortis@durham.ac.uk</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [MOAB-dev] Setting connectivity for single vertex<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi,<br>
can you try this pull request?<br>
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/fathomteam/moab/pull-request/97/read-and-write-free-nodes-in-vtk-format/diff" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/fathomteam/moab/pull-request/97/read-and-write-free-nodes-in-vtk-format/diff</a><br>
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Does it fix your problem? <br>
If you find issues, can you send me the vtk file?<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>So if you save points on vtk you have such thing where no connectivity and no cell definition.</div>
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<div>but if you want to can include connectivities and cel definition as follows</div>
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<div><font color="#0056d6">POINTS 2 double</font></div>
<div><font color="#0056d6">10.0 0 0</font></div>
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This way, Paraview and VisIt can recognise points as elements and consequently can visualise them.
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<div>On 1 Feb 2015, at 15:34, Paul Wilson <<a href="mailto:ppwilson@wisc.edu" target="_blank">ppwilson@wisc.edu</a>></div>
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On 02/01/2015 09:31 AM, CORTIS M. wrote:<br>
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<div>In fact you can create vertices and use them and store data on tag.</div>
<div>The only problem was that if there is no connectivity, </div>
<div>ParaView and VisIT does not visualise them unless you plot the points using glyphs.</div>
<div>So I had to create a function which read the points from a mesh file and insert their individual connectivities and save them as vtk.</div>
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Now I see! Thanks for the clarification.<br>
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So are you connecting the vertices to themselves? What is the element type in VTK for such an element?<br>
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<div>Problem solved. But may be MOAB would consider this problem and do something about it.</div>
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<div>Thanks for your input,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/29/2015 05:08 PM, CORTIS M. wrote:<br>
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Yes I am trying to create an element made from single vertex.</div>
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I want to used these for Material Point Method.</div>
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So there is a way of creating the vertices, but not adding connectivity to themselves only?</div>
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Or may be another way round?</div>
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Perhaps, I'm not fully understanding your questions, but it is certainly possible to create vertices in MOAB and then use them directly in your analysis. There is no need to create an element if, in fact, all you need are the vertices. Each vertex can be
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I hope that is helpful,<br>
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If not, don't worry about. Will create a vtk writer to do this and hopefully moab can use the vertices.</div>
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<div>On 29 Jan 2015, at 17:24, "Grindeanu, Iulian R." <<a href="mailto:iulian@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">iulian@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt">Hello,<br>
Moab does not have elements with a single vertex. Is this what you are trying to do?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
A vertex (node) is represented with an entity handle of type MBVERTEX, and you can get coordinates for it<br>
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I am not sure what are you trying to do.<br>
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Thanks Tim,</div>
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I am still having a problem, may be the guys at Argonne can help with this.</div>
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I've tried a simpler one and trying to crete the vertex from point.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; font-size:12px"> rval = moab2.create_element(MBVERTEX,&vertex,<span style="font-size:11px">1</span>,dummy); CHKERR_PETSC(rval);</div>
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But I am getting Error code 2, MB_TYPE_OUT_OF_RANGE !</div>
<div>Is it possible to use MBVERTEX here?</div>
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<div>On 29 Jan 2015, at 15:04, Tim Tautges <<a href="mailto:tautges@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">tautges@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div>
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dummy is 0, which is an invalid handle, but should be the handle(s) of the entities whose connectivity you're setting; I suspect what you want there is *vertices.begin(). And you can't set connectivity until you make an element, so you need to call create_element,
probably with the number of verts per element as 1 and the connectivity just the single vertex defining the point element.<br>
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I've got the following problem:<br>
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I want to create vertex entities, ie create the points and vertex entities using those points.<br>
So I've create a set of vertices from an array of coordinates.<br>
And If you try to set the connectivity for every point you get Error code 4 (MB_ENTITY_NOT_FOUND).<br>
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double points[6]={1,0,0, 0,1,0, 0,0,1};<br>
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rval = moab.set_connectivity(dummy,vertexlist,1); CHKERR_PETSC(rval); //Error code 4<br>
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Any suggestions how to overcome this problem.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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