How to display displacements "in-plane" with paraview, not warp in the z-direction out of plane

[David]

Hi, all:

I am doing a plane stress problem and have already got the solution vection of x-y displacements, and I want to import it into
pavaview to display the displacements in the x-y plane. I tried to use the filter "warp by scalar/vector", but this would only show
displacements of the field in another z-direction, which is not what I want, since the displacements are in x-y plane, not in z-direction.

How can I achieve this in paraview, could anyone please give some suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Best,
David.

[Uwe Köcher]

if you have vector-valued displacements in your solution files, you can use the filter "warp by vector" instead of "warp by scalar"

[Jean-Paul Pelteret]

Uwe is right, you definitely need to use the "warp by vector" tool. If you have no "vector" displacement field, but rather it two components as individual fields then you must first combine them using the calculator.

[David]

Yes, that worked.

Thank you for all of your help!