Paraview: How to draw arrow in a point cloud

Question

I would like to know if paraview can manage this scenario:

I have a .txt file composed for this fields: x y z vx vy vz

The first 3 parameters represents the location of the point in the space. The last 3 parameters are the components of the unit vector that represents a direction.

I would like to display the point cloud and for each point display the arrow that indicates indicates a direction using (vx,vy,vz)

I am sorry if it is a basic question, I recently started using paraview and I am a litle bit lost.

Answer 1

ParaView is the perfect tools for this task.

• Open ParaView
• Open File -> youFile.txt
• change the "delimiter" to " "
• set haveHeaders correctly if you have header or not in your file
• Apply
• Filters->TableToPoints
• X -> x, Y -> y, Z -> z (considering your file has headers)
• Apply
• Filters->Calculator -> xv*iHat+yx*jHat+zv*kHat, Apply
• Filters->Glyph
• GlyphMode property-> All Point , Apply
• Done !