Florian, How about using a state file exported from ParaView as a template? You can modify the template to add text tags for things that should be customized per simulation output. When generating the simulation, just search/replace the tags with the necessary values.
HTH, Cory On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Florian Hoffmann < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > > Has anybody ever tried to automatically (=by a program) generate a PV > state file for a known pipeline with known settings ? > > My code is writing its simulation results into a HDF5 file. In an > additional step I am processing this file in order to generate a/several > corresponding XDMF file(s) in order to visualize the data with ParaView. > That means, during creation of these XDMF files I know WHAT and HOW I > would like to show it in PV later. I am thinking about generating a > corresponding state file which would load the generated XDMF files into PV > and apply certain default but useful settings: > For example XDMF files representing solid structures should be shown using > 'Surface With Edges' representation and be colored by solid color, whereas > XDMF files representing particle data (=particle centers) should be glyphed > with a sphere and colored by their radius. > I am aware of the absolute path issue in PV state files. But at the moment > this is not a problem for me. My intention is to create this STATE file > next to the generated XDMF files, allowing the user to open ‚The Case‘ in > PV with two clicks in comparison with having to first open the XDMF files > and then apply certain commonly used settings himself. > > > 1) Does anybody has experience with this ? > > 2) When experimenting with the state file, I noticed that it contains a > lot of items that can be removed without creating (obvious) problems. I > assume if not specified in the state file, default settings are used for > example for background color, etc. Is there some example of a ‚MINIMAL > state file‘ that stores only the really relevant settings ? > > > I know that this can also be achieved with python scripts. If anybody can > report positive experience with state files I would opt for this one first. > > > Thank you very much. > > Best regards, > > Florian > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > -- Cory Quammen Staff R&D Engineer Kitware, Inc.
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