[Paraview Tutorial 4] How to display node and elements data in Paraview

If you are still wondering what is Paraview and how to install it, check my first video here:
• [Tuto 1] What is Parav...
Part 2- User Interface: • [Paraview Tuto 2] Unde...
Part 3 - Using Filters: • [Paraview Tutorial 3] ...
In this fourth video of the Paraview Tutorials Series, I will teach you:
- How to use the data inspector to view data on the model
- How to check both elements and nodes data
- How to open all of that in a spreadsheet view
- How to export selected data you need
- and much more!
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[@romanivantysyn2932]

Thanks! Funny thing is I knew how to do it a while ago and then I forgot. Your video helps spark my memory. It can take hours of playing around to find this out by yourself…

[@AbhilashMandal]

Really a great work in explaining the intricacies. Thanks Cyprien. :)

[@ZiyuZhang-h4s]

Thank you very much! Very useful videos for paraview beginners!

[@马瑶瑶-b8j]

I appreciate you very much, and your video is clear and informative. Thanks!

[@Paul.Debangshu]

Thank you for briefing this topic so simply :)

[@filipkumiega209]

Thank you for the tutorial! I'm using version 5.11.1 and could not find ""selection display inspector" and it seems like they moved it to "edit" -> "find data" -> "selection display" . Just wanted to say this in case someone else is having trouble with newer versions.

[@FlorianArbeit-fz8cm]

my hero

[@eirinikar4171]

thank you! You saved me a lot of time!

[@kim6566]

thank you very very very much!!

[@yongfeng8336]

really an excellent video! Thank you

[@vadimgerasimenko4904]

Bless you)
Many thanks for the video!

[@anatolemorcos2993]

thank you so much for your work

[@alexquinlan1855]

Thanks a lot!

[@PeperMintification]

Thanks!

[@hcdeng1283]

Is it possible to write node or element sets into vtk (vtu) files and highlight these sets? Thank you very much.

[@yingwu6417]

Hi Cyprien, I am wondering is there any change you know how to display all the points according to some conditions in paraview? I'd like to identify the dynamic mesh region, which is sets of points that the pointDisplacement is not zero. I have known the pointDisplacement vector for all the points in the field at one time. Thanks!

[@HC-np2hb]

Hi Cyprien, I used the delauney3d filter to create a mesh in paraview from a csv file containing x,y,z coordinates. Do you know how I can export the mesh to python to do some calculations please? (strain fields etc.) I'm very new to python and paraview.

[@shreechandannath1476]

Sir can you start by explaining how to import .mat file of mesh from matlab to paraview and then do the processing

[@teb7002]

Hi Cyprien,
Thank you so much. I will appreciate it if you can share tutorials for postprocessing ansys workbench analysis with paraview? I can not postprocess cyclic symmetry analysis results as linearized stress with ansys wb. So, I think that I can postprocess with paraview.
Thanks in advance,
Talha

[@Feaforall]

That’s a good question Talha. As all proprietary software, Ansys protects a lot the export of data in various ways which makes it difficult to export in VTK directly... maybe you could try to export in Nastran format (*nas). Paraview should be able to read that. Otherwise, another possible way would be to build your own custom script in Python to convert the data, but that’s not easy... you can check on google, probably you will find people who tried.

[@lila9306]

Thanks for the video. Can you tell me plz how can i display coordinate of points or cells in spreadSheetView?

[@Feaforall]

Now that you ask I’ll have to check, but I believe that the coordinates of the cells are automatically recorded in the spreadsheet view... if not, check the options in the (very ) small bar on top of the view

[@lila9306]

@@Feaforall Thank you very much for anwsering. I checked and there is not ! :(

[@lila9306]

@@SO-dl2pv yeah, it was just a problem with my computer :)