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Boundary Selection and Identification
There are two main ways to select boundaries. When you already know the boundary (block) id:
- Select your mesh in the Pipeline Browser
- If the Selection Inspector isn't active, turn it on "View -> Selection Inspector". This usually shows up in the lower left part of the ParaView window, under the Object Inspector.
- Set "Selection Type" to "Blocks", and "Field Type" to "CELL". In the Selection Inspector (scroll down
- if needed), check "Blocks", and then check/uncheck whichever blocks you care about. You will see those corresponding surfaces in the 3D view highlight as a pink wireframe collection of triangles.if you don't know the surface ID, but want to find it out by mousing on the mesh, you can
- use "Edit -> Select Block", (or just hit the "b" key), and then use the mouse to drag out a rectangular region on the mesh which surrounds a portion of the surface(s) of interest.
- Selected boundaries will highlight as pink wireframe triangles, and the selected blocks will be checked in the Selection Inspector, telling you the ID(s) of interest. (For instance, a check next to "DataSet 6 (7)" corresponds to the mesh surface ID of 6.)
- if you got too many blocks, you can check/uncheck blocks in the selection inspector.
- If you know the surface ID ("composite ID"),
- Set "Selection Type" to "Blocks", and "Field Type" to "CELL".
- In the Selection Inspector (scroll down if needed), check "Blocks", and then check/uncheck whichever blocks you care about. You will see those corresponding surfaces in the 3D view highlight as a pink wireframe collection of triangles. (For instance, if you want surface ID 6, then check the box next to "DataSet 6 (7)").
Improved Particle Display and Particle Paths
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