ParaView

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Brief Introduction to ParaView

<a href="http://www.paraview.org">ParaView</a> is advanced software with many options and ample documentation on the <a href="http://www.paraview.org">web or in books</a>. This section just gives steps to get one plot from NairnMPM output:

1. Run NairnMPM calculations using the <a href="../xmlformat/custom.html#VTKArchive">VTKArchive custom task</a>.
2. Run ParaView, choose the open command and select the block of VTK legacy files. The files will be found in the archived results folder with the naming stlye "MPM_#.vtk" where "MPM" is the root name you used for the calculations archived files and "#" is the step number. ParaView will let you select these as a block and open the entire block at once. It will load them in the correct order.
3. ParaView does not actually read files when they are opened. To read them, click the "Apply" button in the object inspect. When it is done reading, a wire frame of the space should appear in the plot area.
4. To get a plot, click the "Contour" icon. In the object inspector, set it to countour by mass. In the isosurfaces section, set the contour value to some number less than the maximum mass.
5. Finally, use the "Color by" menu (in tool bar or in object inspector) to choose archived component to apply color the the mass surface

ParaView has many more options for plotting and reading results from NairnMPM run using the <a href="../xmlformat/custom.html#VTKArchive">VTKArchive custom task</a>. The above just get one plot.