Have you tried putting your pipeline into a custom filters? Select all the filters you want included, then create the custom filter from the group using the menu item Tools -> Create Custom Filter...
To use it, just open your file and apply the one filter. Clint On Monday 25 August 2008 1:22:48 pm Eric E. Monson wrote: > Hey All, > > My group wants to use ParaView for debugging their simulation system, > where they might output many different files in a day with tweaked > parameters and want to quickly view the results to see whether things > are changing the way they expect. > > The problem is that for each run there are three different output > (unstructured grid) files, and to make a nice visualization each has > to be glyphed or colored or filtered in some special way. I can do > this, and it looks great, but it takes a while to set up each time a > new set of files is generated, so it's a bit of a pain. > > Therefore, main question: Once a visualization pipeline is set up, is > there any easy way to pick new files for the readers so new data could > quickly be visualized using an existing "template"? > > I have tried reading in new files and using the "Change Input..." menu > item, but it's a bit of a pain because it's a multi-step method that > changes the order of items in the Pipeline Browser each time you do > it. I know how to save a state file and then edit the source file > names for the readers, but this takes the user out of ParaView and is > a little clunky, but do-able. I can also write a python script that > loads a state file and changes the input files and creates an > animation automatically, but that isn't as flexible as looking at the > data in ParaView itself. (I also tried to change a source file name > from the Python shell within ParaView, but at least with an Xdmf file, > that always crashes ParaView when I'm driving...) > > Am I missing something clean and easy? Is this a typical thing people > would want to routinely do with ParaView? > > Thanks, > -Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Eric E Monson > Duke Visualization Technology Group > > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
