Awesome thanks Cory for the assist!

Jesse
> On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Cory Quammen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jesse,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Jesse Samluk <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Cory,
> 
>   Two quick questions for you on the differences between “Ruler” and 
> “PlotOverLine”.
> 
>    I think what I am looking for is the Ruler source to give me the width of 
> those white lines (as indicated on the image with the red line, attached 
> again for reference). My question first question is, is there a way to save a 
> Ruler in a state file such that it will automatically adjust to a new width 
> of those white lines when I open another VTK file? Or do I have to manually 
> adjust them with each VTK I open?
> 
> You'll have to do it manually. That would be a fancy (but cool!) trick to do 
> the processing needed to stick the rule endpoints to the white region.
>  
>    Second question, when you said the line below, what did you mean (can you 
> walk me through it?)? The way I take it is that the PlotOverLine gives me 
> values of all the fields present as defined on the Ruler (which is cool, by 
> the way), but not the width unless I define it. Am I on the right track with 
> this one, or way off?
> 
> PlotOverLine will not give you the width. What I was suggesting was look at 
> the values in the properties Point1 and Point2. Each of these has x,y,z 
> values for the line endpoints. You can use the standard distance formula for 
> computing the distance between points - not from within ParaView, but with a 
> calculator, spreadsheet program, etc. - to compute the length of the line 
> used in the PlotOverLine filter.
> 
> Cory
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> Jesse
>> On Sep 30, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Cory Quammen <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Optionally, you could dispense with the Ruler source and compute the length 
>> of the line in the Plot Over Line filter manually given Point1 and Point2.
> <ControlRun2LevelIce copy.png>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cory Quammen
> R&D Engineer
> Kitware, Inc.

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