# ParaView Support

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## [OpenVDB support : require specific channels ?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvdb-support-require-specific-channels/15585)

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**Author:** [@Nicholas\_Yue](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Nicholas_Yue)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvdb-support-require-specific-channels/15585 "2024-10-21T12:54:37Z")

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Hi, I just installed Paraview 5.13 on my ubuntu box and trying out the OpenVDB loader I obtain some test file from here The file eventually loads but there are lots of negative index error messages so I am wondering i…

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## [Build Paraview from source, OpenGL Vender points to Intel not Nvidia](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-from-source-opengl-vender-points-to-intel-not-nvidia/15589)

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**Author:** [@Huxiang\_Shi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Huxiang_Shi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-from-source-opengl-vender-points-to-intel-not-nvidia/15589 "2024-10-21T12:56:43Z")

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Dear All, I am building ParaView 5.13.1, and the building process is successful, and I have a question that the OpenGL Vendor in Help-\>About is Intel, but I have also installed ParaView from official release msi file, a…

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## [Link streamlines with source seed ids](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/link-streamlines-with-source-seed-ids/15574)

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**Author:** [@WhiteSte](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/WhiteSte)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/link-streamlines-with-source-seed-ids/15574 "2024-10-21T11:52:15Z")

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Dear all, I’m generating a set of streamlines from a custom set of sources using the StreamTracerWithCustomSource filter: streamTracer = StreamTracerWithCustomSource(Input=foam\_source, SeedSource=seed\_points) In this …

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## [Rendering of large dataset in pvbatch script on computational node](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rendering-of-large-dataset-in-pvbatch-script-on-computational-node/15595)

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**Author:** [@caddfc](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/caddfc)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rendering-of-large-dataset-in-pvbatch-script-on-computational-node/15595 "2024-10-21T10:04:11Z")

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Good afternoon, so I have an automatisation pvbatch script for opening a large dataset of .pfb type slicing the 3D to 2D adjusting view and than taking a screenshot. This worked now well for with netcdf before and also …

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## [install problem - file association paraview 5.11 in windows 11](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-problem-file-association-paraview-5-11-in-windows-11/11730)

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**Author:** [@MarcDP](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarcDP)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-problem-file-association-paraview-5-11-in-windows-11/11730 "2024-10-21T09:55:59Z")

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Hello I am working on my personal computer and having trouble updating to the last version of paraview. After downloading and installing, as usual in previous version, the msi package, when I update the executable assoc…

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## [Paraview crashes when opneing xdmf files from dolfinx](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-opneing-xdmf-files-from-dolfinx/15581)

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**Author:** [@Skonki](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Skonki)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-opneing-xdmf-files-from-dolfinx/15581 "2024-10-21T09:39:21Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Paraview crashes when opening xdmf files created with FEniCSx: I am facing a very similar problem. My code crashes either when I want to visualize the results or when i want to apply the p…

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## [Cell with non-manifold triangulation](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cell-with-non-manifold-triangulation/15473)

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**Author:** [@Il\_Briga](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Il_Briga)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cell-with-non-manifold-triangulation/15473 "2024-10-21T07:34:30Z")

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Hello everyone, My simulation runs perfectly and it converges both in PISO and SIMPLE mode (i.e unsteady and steady case). However viewing the result, when i apply a slice, the following warning is provided by Paraview: …

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## [Loading .plt file with Paraview version 5.11.2](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-plt-file-with-paraview-version-5-11-2/15537)

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**Author:** [@Boone](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Boone)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-plt-file-with-paraview-version-5-11-2/15537 "2024-10-21T07:30:29Z")

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Hi all, I have recently installed Paraview 5.11.2 on Ubuntu 24.04 and try to read .plt files but I am facing issues. When I open a file the .plt format is not recognized as a supported format, thus I am asked to chose …

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## [Can't animate \*.cas.h5 files from ANSYS](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-animate-cas-h5-files-from-ansys/15555)

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**Author:** [@as4934](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/as4934)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-animate-cas-h5-files-from-ansys/15555 "2024-10-18T18:08:04Z")

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Hello all, I am trying to animate the output files from ANSYS but the video is weird. I have attached both what it is supposed to look like and what it looks like and how I am doing it. I have also attached the data fil…

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## [How to Append Node-Based Pore Water Pressure (PWP) Data to a VTU File in ParaView](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-append-node-based-pore-water-pressure-pwp-data-to-a-vtu-file-in-paraview/15540)

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**Author:** [@najafi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/najafi)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-append-node-based-pore-water-pressure-pwp-data-to-a-vtu-file-in-paraview/15540 "2024-10-18T11:30:11Z")

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Hello everyone, I’m working with a 3D mesh model in ParaView that was generated using OpenSees, and I have the mesh data saved in a .vtu file. Additionally, I have pore water pressure (PWP) data for all the nodes, which…

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## [How do I display only ranges of data from a 3D model?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-only-ranges-of-data-from-a-3d-model/15570)

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**Author:** [@rmdmagalong](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rmdmagalong)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2024, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-only-ranges-of-data-from-a-3d-model/15570 "2024-10-17T09:04:00Z")

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Hi! I have a 3D VTK model which contains and is represented by one type of data (resistivity). This data has a spectrum of values and I cannot figure out how I can only view a certain data range (for example, only viewin…

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## [Velocity data with Smokeview reader (FDS)](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/velocity-data-with-smokeview-reader-fds/14427)

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**Author:** [@AlexandreN](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/AlexandreN)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/velocity-data-with-smokeview-reader-fds/14427 "2024-10-17T08:25:18Z")

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Hi everybody ! I got a problem by reading .q and .xyz files in ParaView. Every timesteps and variables are in a totally disorder on ParaView. I’m here to understand how to modify the .q and .xyz file on FDS to make the…

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## [Error reading CGNS file with arbitrary polyhedral elements](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-cgns-file-with-arbitrary-polyhedral-elements/6286)

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**Author:** [@mnataraj](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mnataraj)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-cgns-file-with-arbitrary-polyhedral-elements/6286 "2024-10-16T09:15:55Z")

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Hi, I am using Paraview to visualize a CGNS file which was generated by one of the test examples in the CGNS github. It gives an error “Mixed definition of unstructured zone by elements and by faces is not valid”. Here …

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## [Opening fluent results in paraview](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opening-fluent-results-in-paraview/14281)

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**Author:** [@harsha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/harsha)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/opening-fluent-results-in-paraview/14281 "2024-10-16T03:25:11Z")

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Is there any way we can open fluent results in ParaView ? I tried exporting as ensight gold case format and open it in paraview but end up with an error.I also removed the last two lines in the .encas file and the the do…

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## [How to open the odb file of abaqus using paraview](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-open-the-odb-file-of-abaqus-using-paraview/12543)

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**Author:** [@LOX](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/LOX)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 15, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-open-the-odb-file-of-abaqus-using-paraview/12543 "2024-10-15T21:50:25Z")

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1、I downloaded that part of the code odb2vtk 2、Follow the documentation steps to set up 3、Send an error when I perform the following steps in the command window ConvertOdb2Vtk(‘F:\\Temp\\odb2vtk.txt’) Traceback…

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## [Strange slice filter update behaviour](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-slice-filter-update-behaviour/12108)

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**Author:** [@paulmelis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/paulmelis)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [October 15, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-slice-filter-update-behaviour/12108 "2024-10-15T16:49:41Z")

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With 5.11.1 (official binaries) on a 72-core (Xeon(R) Platinum 8360Y CPU @ 2.40GHz) Linux 4.18 x86\_64 node with 512 GB memory I get extremely sluggish slice plane filter performance, or at least it doesn’t seem to do any…

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## [Problem with Paraview heavy file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-paraview-heavy-file/15527)

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**Author:** [@Lola\_Martin\_Alonso](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lola_Martin_Alonso)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 15, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/problem-with-paraview-heavy-file/15527 "2024-10-15T12:03:34Z")

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Hi. I have a problem with some .vtk files. The things is that my vtk files have information regarding height. Then if the vtk is smaller than 200,000 KB the visualization is fine, I can see all the volume while if the v…

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## [Rescale object](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rescale-object/15550)

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**Author:** [@quique](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/quique)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 15, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rescale-object/15550 "2024-10-15T11:19:52Z")

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I imported an stl object that is a factor of 1000 larger than it should, probably because of some meter to millimeter conversion somewhere. I cannot find out how to scale it down. I guess I have to use the transform filt…

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## [How to calculate circulation in paraview ?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-circulation-in-paraview/9913)

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**Author:** [@Toshan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Toshan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2022, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-circulation-in-paraview/9913 "2022-06-28T08:00:14Z")

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Dear Foamers, I have a cuboidal domain where the flow is occuring. I want to compute the radial distribution of circulation at a particular slice (plane) taken from the cuboidal domain. So for calculating circulation, …

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## [Some results cause PV to crash or hang](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/some-results-cause-pv-to-crash-or-hang/15519)

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**Author:** [@tpalloj](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tpalloj)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/some-results-cause-pv-to-crash-or-hang/15519 "2024-10-14T20:01:19Z")

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Hello, I am investigating results gathered through Ansys Fluent in Paraview. I am having some trouble with certain cases where Paraview either crashes when I try to open it, or just seems to load forever. I am using th…

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## [Cannot open some netCDF files in Paraview](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547)

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**Author:** [@ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ANON1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-open-some-netcdf-files-in-paraview/15547 "2024-10-14T14:12:37Z")

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I have some result files generated by a CFD solver. I can load most of the netCDF results such as the 3D data in Paraview, but for some reason some files cannot be read correctly (I am using Paraview 5.12 & 5.13 on Wind…

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## [How to set animation speed (not the string)](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-animation-speed-not-the-string/14198)

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**Author:** [@legno](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/legno)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 13, 2024, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-animation-speed-not-the-string/14198 "2024-10-13T09:09:23Z")

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Hello, I am using Paraview 5.12.0 on OSX. I know how to change the frame rate of an animation. How may I change the stride of an animation. How may I change the speed at which the animation is played? Note that the solut…

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## [Reading XMF/H5, paraview+pvserver, MPI](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-xmf-h5-paraview-pvserver-mpi/15534)

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**Author:** [@ghasemi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ghasemi)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 11, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-xmf-h5-paraview-pvserver-mpi/15534 "2024-10-11T11:44:21Z")

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Dear all, I use ParaView in client+server mode (paraview+pvserver). Some XMF/H5 files work without any problem disregarding the number of MPI processes with which I execute pvserver. However, some work only when I execu…

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## [Spatial filtering of the field data during postprocessing](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/spatial-filtering-of-the-field-data-during-postprocessing/15512)

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**Author:** [@Roger1198](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Roger1198)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 9, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/spatial-filtering-of-the-field-data-during-postprocessing/15512 "2024-10-09T07:22:19Z")

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I have a set of unsteady LES data, and I would like to filter out (low-pass) the higher frequencies over all timesteps. Essentially, what that would do is smooth out the disturbances in a scalar or vector field over all …

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## [Probably a bug in VTK file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/probably-a-bug-in-vtk-file/15521)

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**Author:** [@Elisan\_Magalhaes](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Elisan_Magalhaes)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/probably-a-bug-in-vtk-file/15521 "2024-10-08T17:54:25Z")

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temperature\_field\_bin.vtk (858 Bytes) I’m experiencing a bug in Paraview 5.13, I do not know if is my file that is wrong or whaterver. But Paraview is not plotting the image for this file and it is not giving a bug mess…

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## [Error when I open a vtu file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-when-i-open-a-vtu-file/15511)

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**Author:** [@Giuseppe\_Sammarro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Giuseppe_Sammarro)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-when-i-open-a-vtu-file/15511 "2024-10-08T16:21:52Z")

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When i try to open a vtu file the program gives me this error: vtkXMLParser.cxx:375 ERR| vtkXMLDataParser (0x5583f50fd8a0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 20, column 0, byte index 855: not well-formed (invalid …

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## [Extract Cylindrical subset](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extract-cylindrical-subset/15514)

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**Author:** [@RaniaYian](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/RaniaYian)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extract-cylindrical-subset/15514 "2024-10-08T09:08:45Z")

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I want to extract a subset of my velocity field in order to do postprocessing. However this subset is a cylinder and not a plane, box, or sphere, for which I could use the Extract Subset filter. This is a printscreen whe…

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## [Sliced/Disapearing View when stepping through the timesteps](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sliced-disapearing-view-when-stepping-through-the-timesteps/15505)

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**Author:** [@abaumann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/abaumann)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 6:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sliced-disapearing-view-when-stepping-through-the-timesteps/15505 "2024-10-08T06:35:41Z")

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When stepping between different time steps, the data disappears like it is sliced and the slicing plane is moved backwards. See attached gif for visualization. A couple of time steps later, the slicing moves back, and th…

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## [Import data to Paraview](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/import-data-to-paraview/15468)

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**Author:** [@giofed](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/giofed)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/import-data-to-paraview/15468 "2024-10-08T03:08:14Z")

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Hello, I would like to plot the result of a stress analysis of a finite element made of 4 corner plate model loaded with some forces. After the analysis I have tables defining my model and results in text fomat. One ta…

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## [Material emissivity based on variable value](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/material-emissivity-based-on-variable-value/15509)

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**Author:** [@Alexandre\_Minot](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Alexandre_Minot)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 7, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/material-emissivity-based-on-variable-value/15509 "2024-10-07T21:17:31Z")

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Hello, Is it possible to set the emissivity of an object based on a variable value? It looks like emissive texture can be set by importing a texture file. I don’t understand how to generate texture files, and would lik…

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