If you click on a selection, it will become permanent. Interactively select cells on the surface of your dataset. Either click or rubber band select works. Select points on the surface of your dataset by drawing a polygon. Select cells on the surface of your dataset by drawing a polygon. Within a tolerance, the nearest point will be selected. Select one or more points on the surface of your object. Select one or more cells on the surface of your object. Selections can be used as input to numerous Data Analysis filters.Variable data can be printed on the screen for any cell that is selected.You can also use the Add Selection, Subtract Selection and Toggle Selection icons. More than one selection can be active at a time.Selections are found as a group of icons in the upper left corner of the 3d view. ParaView has a very powerful group of selection tools. Open the Cell Labels pulldown, and select EQPS.This is done with Cell Labels and Point Labels. We can also display cell or point data on the 3d view. Use the Freeze Selection button to freeze selections. The same cell will then be selected for all timesteps. If desired, the maximum (or minimum) cell can be found, and this selection can be frozen. Notice that the data for the selected cell (or point) is displayed in the spreadsheet. You can also open the Find Data dialog using the icon Open a dataset and the Find Data dialog.We will explore this dialog box using an example.

The Find Data dialog box is used to select points or cells, to show the data for these points or cells, to control label display on your data in the 3d view, and as a shortcut to run data analysis filters.

Paraview extract selection