Implicit Node/Element Indices from Exodus Files
This issue was created automatically from an original Mantis Issue. Further discussion may take place here.
Several users need to be able to reference point and cells that come from Exodus files by the implicit nodes used in the files. That is, each point or cell is accessed through a particular id in the Exodus API, and users want to be able to see this id from within ParaView.
The easiest way to implement this is to have the Exodus reader (optionally) write out a point and/or cell field array containing these implicit arrays. These arrays should be called ImplicitNodeIndex (or ImplicitPointIndex) and ImplicitElementIndex (or ImplicitCellIndex), respectively.