pyvista.UnstructuredGrid.celltypes#

property UnstructuredGrid.celltypes: ndarray[source]#

Return the cell types array.

Returns:
numpy.ndarray

Array of cell types.

Notes

Here are some of the most popular cell types:

  • EMPTY_CELL = 0

  • VERTEX = 1

  • POLY_VERTEX = 2

  • LINE = 3

  • POLY_LINE = 4

  • TRIANGLE = 5

  • TRIANGLE_STRIP = 6

  • POLYGON = 7

  • PIXEL = 8

  • QUAD = 9

  • TETRA = 10

  • VOXEL = 11

  • HEXAHEDRON = 12

  • WEDGE = 13

  • PYRAMID = 14

  • PENTAGONAL_PRISM = 15

  • HEXAGONAL_PRISM = 16

  • QUADRATIC_EDGE = 21

  • QUADRATIC_TRIANGLE = 22

  • QUADRATIC_QUAD = 23

  • QUADRATIC_POLYGON = 36

  • QUADRATIC_TETRA = 24

  • QUADRATIC_HEXAHEDRON = 25

  • QUADRATIC_WEDGE = 26

  • QUADRATIC_PYRAMID = 27

  • BIQUADRATIC_QUAD = 28

  • TRIQUADRATIC_HEXAHEDRON = 29

  • QUADRATIC_LINEAR_QUAD = 30

  • QUADRATIC_LINEAR_WEDGE = 31

  • BIQUADRATIC_QUADRATIC_WEDGE = 32

  • BIQUADRATIC_QUADRATIC_HEXAHEDRON = 33

  • BIQUADRATIC_TRIANGLE = 34

See vtkCellType.h for all cell types.

Examples

This mesh contains only linear hexahedral cells, type CellType.HEXAHEDRON, which evaluates to 12.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> from pyvista import examples
>>> hex_beam = pv.read(examples.hexbeamfile)
>>> hex_beam.celltypes  
array([12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12,
       12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12,
       12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12],
       dtype=uint8)