pyvista.UnstructuredGrid.celltypes#

property UnstructuredGrid.celltypes: ndarray[Any, dtype[float]][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)