[aerosayan]

Plotting labels on contours is absolutely broken in Paraview.
Asked in the Post-Processor subforum, but it's a ghost town.


Found a way to plot labels in Paraview, but the problem is that the values can only be plotted on Points in the mesh.
As shown in the pic, this means that we can't use it as contour labels because of the inaccuracy.


What do?

We need a better solution, and the Paraview dev team isn't taking this feature as high priority for many years.

[aero_head]

Hello Sayan,

Yes, I agree Paraview is not up to snuff with this kind of thing (especially compared to Tecplot).

If I understand correctly what you want to do, I think the best way to label these would be to take a screenshot, open an editing program such as Paint and add text in text boxes with your labels.

Might be a bit tedious, but such is research sometimes.

[aerosayan]

Originally Posted by aero_head

Hello Sayan,

Yes, I agree Paraview is not up to snuff with this kind of thing (especially compared to Tecplot).

If I understand correctly what you want to do, I think the best way to label these would be to take a screenshot, open an editing program such as Paint and add text in text boxes with your labels.

Might be a bit tedious, but such is research sometimes.

Hmmm.. I don't know, I found a way to export the point data x,y,z,T into a CSV file.
Maybe I can plot it in python or octave. Tedious work.

[sbaffini]

Why don't you just use the VTK library and write a program that will do just that? If I'm not wrong, VTK actually has this feature, it's just Paraview that doesn't use it for some reason.

[aero_head]

Originally Posted by sbaffini

Why don't you just use the VTK library and write a program that will do just that? If I'm not wrong, VTK actually has this feature, it's just Paraview that doesn't use it for some reason.

Oh that's a good idea, yes VTK does have that feature I believe.