I've done something similar in the past. I just write it out to a different dataset and read it in again. Do File -> Save Data. It can even save all data in the time series as individual datasets.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:05 PM, D H <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some VTK files (legacy VTK format, unstructured grid) that I'm > rendering in Paraview. For each file, I load the file into Paraview, then > do a scalar clip of that data. I render only the clip for each file. > > The thing is that doing this for a large number of files uses up a lot of > memory. Each LegacyVTKReader uses about 30MB of RAM, and each clip uses > only about 0.15MB of RAM. If I just kept the Clips in memory and could > discard each LegacyVTKReader as soon as I made the corresponding clip, > there's clearly a lot of memory that could be saved. > > This may be a silly question, but is there any way to "separate" a Clip > from its parent data set? Like, can I just make the Clip its own (3D) > geometric object, and forget about the fact that it originally came from a > VTK file? Maybe this is impossible, but I thought I would ask in case > there is some way to achieve what I'm thinking of and save a great deal of > memory. > > Thanks very much! > > David > > _______________________________________________ > 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://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > -- ganesh
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