fields.components.FieldComponent.to_value

FieldComponent.to_value(units: str | Unit, equivalence: str | None = None, **kwargs) → ndarray

Return the buffer contents in the specified units, stripped of unit tags.

This is useful for exporting to numerical formats or plotting libraries that do not understand units.

Parameters:

• units (str or unyt.Unit) – Target units to convert to.

• equivalence (str, optional) – Unit conversion equivalence.

• **kwargs – Forwarded to the unit conversion logic.

Returns:

The plain numerical array in the target units.

Return type:

numpy.ndarray