Show 2D celldata fields in 3D domains with Paraview - mesh

I have a .vtu file composed of tetrahedral and triangular elements (located on an outer surface). I also have a celldata field (for example, nrc1) defined on the triangular elements and being zero in the tetrahedral ones. When I select to plot this field in Paraview, I only see a zero field, corresponding with the 3D elements, but no trace of the field in the 2D elements.
Is there a way to show that 2D field in Paraview?
P.D.: I cannot interpolate the 2D celldata field into a pointdata one, since part of the information (discontinuities,...) would be lost.

There is indeed a conflict between the information on the 3D cells (zeroes) and information on the 2D cells (actual information), where the 2D cells and the 3D cells overlap.
Even though your dataset is valid, mixed dimension dataset are not easy to manage correctly, hence your issue.
In any case, you should extract your 2D cells to be able to visualize your data correctly, here is how I would do it :
Create a new view, click on Spreadsheet view
show your dataset in the spreadsheet view
order by CellType
Manually select all 2D CellType has they will be located together
Add an Extract Selection filter, Apply
You can now visualize your data on this 2D cells only dataset
You could also use Edit->Find Data and select by ID since your cells seems to be ordoned.
Finally, you could write a small Python Programmable Filter to do all that for you completelly automatically, but it is not very easy to implement.

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1- There are some group of boxes to be placed on strips (see article 3.)
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group A
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group B
250 boxes with width = 150cm and height = 200cm
etc.
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infinite number of Width = 800cm and Height 1400cm
4- The main goal is packing these boxes into minimum number of the strips. However, there are some restrictions to do this job.
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6- It is not important to fill the whole strip. We want to fill strips with minimum space between boxes. The heighest column indicates a stop line through other columns and we calculate the loss value (space ratio over the whole strip area).
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This math model works great in the GLPK. However, it is designed for boxes for packing in x,y coordinates. If you see article 5 we want them in a fixed-width column fashion.
Can you please help me to modify the mathematical model to make possible to implement article 5.
Thank you all,

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how to trace isosurface on a higher dimensional space efficiently
You have a scalar cost function in N dimensions,
f(y0, y1, .., yN) ∊ ℝ, y ∊ ℝ
but sampled only in a regular rectangular grid,
yk = Ψk + ψk xk, constants Ψk ∊ ℝ and ψk ∊ ℝ, and grid coordinates xk ∊ ℕ
and the problem is to locate the isosurface(s) i,
f(y0, y1, .., yN) = Ci
The direct approach would be to just loop over each cell in the grid, and check if the current isosurface intersects the current cell, and if so, describe the part of the isosurface within the current cell. (Marching Cubes is one approach to describing how the isosurface intersects each grid cell.)
The restriction here is to use a neighborhood based search instead of examining every single cell.
OP had a previous question specifically for the 3D case, to which I posted a link to example code, grid.h and grid.c (at Pastebin.com, because they were too long to include inline).
That implementation is completely different to OP's slicing method. Mine is a direct, simple walk over the grid cells intersecting the current isosurface. It caches the grid samples, and uses a separate map (one char per grid cell) to keep track which grid cells have been cached, walked, and/or pushed to a stack to be walked later. This approach is easily extended to more than three dimensions. Although the code is written for exactly three dimensions, the approach itself is not specific to three dimensions at all; all you need to do is to adjust the data structures to accommodate any (sensible) number of dimensions.
The isosurface walk itself is trivial. You start from any grid cell the isosurface intersects, then examine all 2N nearest neighbor cells to see if the isosurface intersects those too. In practice, you use a stack of grid cell locations to be examined, and a map of grid cell flags to avoid re-examining already examined grid cells.
Because the number of grid point samples per grid cell is 2N, my example code is not optimal: a lot of nearby grid points end up being evaluated to see if the neighboring grid cells do intersect the isosurface. (Instead of examining only the grid points delimiting the isosurface, grid points belonging to any grid cells surrounding the isosurface are examined.) This extra work grows exponentially as N increases.
A better approach would be to consider each of the 2N possible (N-1)-faces separately, to avoid examining cells the isosurface does not intersect at all.
In an N-dimensional regular rectangular grid, each cell is an N-dimensional cuboid, defined by the 2N grid points at the vertices (corners). The N-cuboid cells have N(N-1) two-dimensional faces, and 2N (N-1)-dimensional faces.
To examine each (N-1)-face, you need to examine the cost function at the 2N-1 grid points defining that (N-1)-face. If the cost function at those points spans the isosurface value, then the isosurface intersects the (N-1)-face, and the isosurface intersects the next grid cell in that direction also.
There are two (N-1)-faces perpendicular to each axis. If the isosurface intersects the (N-1)-face closer to negative infinity, then the isosurface intersects the next grid cell along that axis towards negative infinity too. Similarly, if the isosurface intersects the (N-1)-face closer to positive infinity, then it also intersects the next grid cell along that axis towards positive infinity too. Thus, the (N-1)-faces are perfect for deciding which neighboring cells should be examined or not. This is true because the (N-1)-face is exactly the set of grid points the two cells share.
I'm very hesitant to provide example C code, because the example code of the same approach for the 3D case does not seem to have helped anyone thus far. I fear a longer explanation with 2- and 3-dimensional example images for illustration would be needed to describe the approach in easily understandable terms; and without a firm grasp of the logic, any example code would just look like gobbledygook.
You are better using a library for 2 dimension you can try the conrec algorithm from Prof. Paul Bourke. It's similar to a marching cube.

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