pyvista.UnstructuredGrid.cells_dict#

property UnstructuredGrid.cells_dict: dict[source]#

Return a dictionary that contains all cells mapped from cell types.

This function returns a numpy.ndarray for each cell type in an ordered fashion. Note that this function only works with element types of fixed sizes.

Returns:

dict: A dictionary mapping containing all cells of this unstructured grid. Structure: vtk_enum_type (int) -> cells (numpy.ndarray).

See also

pyvista.DataSet.get_cell

Examples

Return the cells dictionary of the sample hex beam. Note how there is only one key/value pair as the hex beam example is composed of only all hexahedral cells, which is CellType.HEXAHEDRON, which evaluates to 12.

Also note how there is no padding for the cell array. This approach may be more helpful than the cells property when extracting cells.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> from pyvista import examples
>>> hex_beam = pv.read(examples.hexbeamfile)
>>> hex_beam.cells_dict  
{12: array([[ 0,  2,  8,  7, 27, 36, 90, 81],
        [ 2,  1,  4,  8, 36, 18, 54, 90],
        [ 7,  8,  6,  5, 81, 90, 72, 63],
        ...
        [44, 26, 62, 98, 11, 10, 13, 17],
        [89, 98, 80, 71, 16, 17, 15, 14],
        [98, 62, 53, 80, 17, 13, 12, 15]])}