Dude! You are sooooo awesome! Why didn't I think of that? Because I thought trace was for something altogether different from that.
Now I feel like I can do anything! Thanks immensely for your help, Hamilton Woods ---------- Original Message ----------- From: emonson at cs.duke.edu To: [email protected] Cc: paraview list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:20:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [Paraview] How to use a filter in a Python script? > Hey Hamilton, > > You should also try using the Python Trace (and Trace State) > functionality now built into ParaView. After (or while) you set up > your pipeline in ParaView this will give you a Python script to > accomplish the same thing. This page tells a bit about the current > (git) version: > > http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Python_GUI_Tools > > You'll see the Start Trace and Trace State if you go to Tools- > >Python Shell, and then click on the Trace tab on the right of the panel. > > -Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Eric E Monson > Duke Visualization Technology Group > > On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Sebastien Jourdain wrote: > > > Hi Hamilton, > > > > You can look at http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting > > and that http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaViewUsersGuide/List_of_filters > > > > Seb > > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am a newbie to Paraview and have little experience programming Python. I > >> would like to know how to call a particular filter from within Python. The > >> only filter I have seen referenced in the Python scripting documentation is > >> Shrink(). > >> > >> I want to retrieve the scalar values along a line segment (Plot Over > >> Line(ProbeLine)) that extends through an unstructured 3D grid. I have "The > >> ParaView Guide", "The VTK User's Guide" and "The Visualization Toolkit: An > >> Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics". I don't see how to programmatically > >> do this. I have looked on all of the ParaView web sites that I can find, > >> and > >> in tutorials. I do not even see a list of available filter names. > >> > >> Is there a guide for Python Scripting (chapter 20 of The ParaView Guide is the > >> best I have found) that covers using filters? Example code? Anything? > >> How > >> do you even find the filter names in the documentation? > >> > >> Thanks for any help, > >> Hamilton Woods > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Powered by www.kitware.com > >> > >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > >> > >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > >> > >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
