[Paraview] Help with Programmable Filter

2014-08-04 Thread Dennis Conklin
I have the following script for a Paraview Programmable filter: import math import numpy # # Gdyr_Principal_Strains_ProgFilter #Rev 0 #Aug 1, 2014 # Dennis Conklin - Engineering Mechanics # # Paraview 4.0.1 Progammable Filter # Adds Cell Variables: # Principal Strains: str_P1

Re: [Paraview] Help with Programmable Filter

2014-08-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
debug prints to show up somewhere - I'm not getting any error messages in the console or the Output Window. thanks Dennis Conklin, PE RDEQ Principal Engineer Goodyear Innovation Center, 5th Floor South, Pillar M34 Phone: 330-796-5701 Email: dennis_conk...@goodyear.com

Re: [Paraview] Help with Programmable Filter

2014-08-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
P.S. P1, P2, P3 and max_shear are each just scalar numbers (value of Principal strains) - the P1[] is just a value for each element in the block Dennis Conklin, PE RDEQ Principal Engineer Goodyear Innovation Center, 5th Floor South, Pillar M34 Phone: 330-796-5701 Email: dennis_conk

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Idiot's Guide to Programmable Filter

2015-04-29 Thread Dennis Conklin
To: Scott, W Alan Cc: Dennis Conklin; paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Idiot's Guide to Programmable Filter Hey Dennis, Which version of ParaView are you using? We have made some significant improvements to the way we handle multi-block datasets (which Exodus produces

[Paraview] Idiot's Guide to Programmable Filter

2015-04-28 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I'm a little confused by what objects are inside a programmable filter.I have a multi-block EXODUS dataset.When I read this in it is a Exodus2Reader object (sp?) and I can access the blocks, pointdata, celldata, etc in a python script. Once I get inside the Programmable filter,

Re: [Paraview] How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-08-21 Thread Dennis Conklin
that matches your quad's 4-tuple. The search is reduced to a relatively small collection of hexahedral surface 4-tuple faces. Hope this helps. Samuel W Key FMA Development, LLC 1005 39th Ave NE Great Falls, Montana 59404 USA From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:52 PM

[Paraview] How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-08-20 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have an Exodus, multi-block model. Most of the blocks are hex elements, and some are layers of quads (tires are composite structures). I would like to establish local strains which are oriented in the direction of the nearest quad layer. To do this I need to identify, for each hex in

[Paraview] Is there a way to make Spreadsheet view Text larger?

2015-07-30 Thread Dennis Conklin
Is there a Geezer mode for Spreadsheet view.I can find no way to zoom or to change font size in Spreadsheet, and these old eyes aren't what they used to be. Thanks Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to detect valid read in Programmable filter

2015-08-04 Thread Dennis Conklin
Dan, Thanks for that hint. A little experimenting proved that the fully qualified name didn’t work but dataset_adapter.VTKNoneArray worked so I wrapped up my filter this morning Dennis From: Dan Lipsa [mailto:dan.li...@kitware.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 11:31 PM To: Dennis Conklin

[Paraview] How to detect valid read in Programmable filter

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I want to try to read some point arrays in the Programmable Filter and take action based on whether or not the arrays have been loaded into Paraview.I am pretty lost in the PF, so take that for what it's worth. If I try something like try: displ=block.PointData['DISPL'] Print

[Paraview] How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter

2015-08-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
! Dennis Conklin, PE RDEQ Principal Engineer Goodyear Innovation Center, 5th Floor South, Pillar M34 Phone: 330-796-5701 Email: dennis_conk...@goodyear.com ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter

2015-08-14 Thread Dennis Conklin
! Dennis From: David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.dema...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:43 PM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Dennis Conklin

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter

2015-08-14 Thread Dennis Conklin
Dennis From: David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.dema...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:56 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] How to detect element type inside Programmable Filter Shell means locally 2D and Truss means locally 3D? def

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-08-25 Thread Dennis Conklin
Marco, I am actually tied up for the next week or so, so if you can post a sample in that timeframe that would be perfect. Thanks very much Dennis From: Marco Nawijn [mailto:naw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 11:21 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Stupid question on Programmable Source

2015-10-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 3:53 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Stupid question on Programmable Source > 1.

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Stupid question on Programmable Source

2015-10-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
compiling here that I cannot actually get this as a reader, correct? Thanks for your interest. Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:35 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (pa

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Stupid question on Programmable Source

2015-10-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
: Thursday, October 22, 2015 5:15 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Stupid question on Programmable Source Dennis, > Would it be more efficient make this a Programmable

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Stupid question on Programmable Source

2015-10-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
. I have attached the script if there is anything obvious that I am doing incorrectly. Thanks for your help Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 9:41 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com&

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Stupid question on Programmable Source

2015-10-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
structured Grid 2. I comment out the output= in my script 3. Paraview dies with a segmentation error while whining about SetPoints Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:35 PM To: Dennis Conklin &l

[Paraview] Stupid question on Programmable Source

2015-10-22 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, So I have these text files that I want to read in to create an unstructured grid and associated variables. So far I have the mesh and I am now struggling with how to efficiently assign the element variables. The variable file looks like this: Element 1 97 variables listed Element 2 97

Re: [Paraview] Customize programmable filters: copy arrays

2015-11-10 Thread Dennis Conklin
Jean-Michel, I normally just add the following two statements within my Filter: output.CopyStructure(inputs[0].VTKObject) output.DeepCopy(inputs[0].VTKObject) Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Customize programmable filters: copy arrays

2015-11-10 Thread Dennis Conklin
[mailto:berk.gev...@kitware.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 3:40 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Customize programmable filters: copy arrays Don't use DeepCopy() unles

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Making timesteps

2015-11-02 Thread Dennis Conklin
: Saturday, October 31, 2015 12:31 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Making timesteps Hi Dennis, Please see the blog post I just wrote: http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/989

[Paraview] Making timesteps

2015-10-30 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I would like to take a ring of elements, lets say a ring of 180 elements, each 2degrees of arc. After loading this ring, each of the 180 elements in the ring will have a specific strain state. I would like to then take a separate input which would be a single element and give it 180

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Trusses to Tubes

2015-10-16 Thread Dennis Conklin
version, but no time right now! Dennis -Original Message- From: David Thompson [mailto:david.thomp...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 1:35 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subje

[Paraview] Trusses to Tubes

2015-10-15 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have a Exodus multi-block dataset with some blocks that are truss elements (unstructured grid).Each truss represents a cord and I would like to run the Tube filter on them to display their actual diameter so that I can check how close they come to touching each other. Of course,

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Trusses to Tubes

2015-10-16 Thread Dennis Conklin
a surface but apparently that's a line! Thanks again for the helpful and very speedy reply! Dennis -Original Message- From: David Thompson [mailto:david.thomp...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 5:06 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Pa

Re: [Paraview] Animations: inserting text-only frames

2015-10-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
Giordano, If you export the animation from Paraview, Windows Movie Maker, which is free to all Windoze users, will allow you to insert titles anywhere in the video. I'm sure there are similar utilities for Mac and Linux, but I'm not familiar with them. Might be easier to do it externally

[Paraview] How to Tell if Apply Displacements checked and Displacement Magnitude for Exodus multi-block dataset from Programmable filter

2015-08-26 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Let's say I load an Exodus file with a multi-block dataset. At that time I either Apply Displacements or not and I can change the default Displacement Magnitude of 1. Then I want to run a Programmable filter. In that filter, I want to take different actions depending on Apply

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Exodus Block Names

2015-08-31 Thread Dennis Conklin
...@kitware.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 10:50 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Shawn Waldon; Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Exodus Block Names Hi all, The Exodus reader creates 8 top-level blocks to identify different types of data present in each file (corresponding

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Exodus Block Names

2015-08-31 Thread Dennis Conklin
e-packages/vtk/util/numpy_support.py", line 166, in numpy_to_vtk z_flat = numpy.ravel(z).astype(arr_dtype) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Apex_1' -Original Message- From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 2:47 PM To: 'David Thompson' Cc: Shawn

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Exodus Block Names

2015-08-31 Thread Dennis Conklin
[mailto:shawn.wal...@kitware.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 9:46 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Exodus Block Names Hi Dennis, The metadata is on the reader's output, which is a vtkMultiBlockDataSet. reader.GetOutput() should get you

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Exodus Block Names

2015-08-31 Thread Dennis Conklin
to be anything about metadata. Dennis From: Shawn Waldon [mailto:shawn.wal...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 4:44 PM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Exodus Block Names Hi Dennis, The block name is in the block metadata, which

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-09-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
enough to be interpreted by anyone, but here’s hoping. Dennis From: Marco Nawijn [mailto:naw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 11:26 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] How to find the nearest quad element? Hi Dennis

[Paraview] Programmable Filter with Multiple Inputs

2015-09-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I'm a little uncertain about Programmable Filters with multiple inputs. I had been assuming that if I had 2 inputs, then inputs[0] is the input that's higher up in the Pipeline Browser, and inputs[1] is the lower input in the Pipeline Browser, but that does not always seem to be the

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to find the nearest quad element?

2015-08-25 Thread Dennis Conklin
Marco, Thanks for that tip – I’m not very familiar with vtk and I’ve never heard of that class but it seems appropriate so I will try to dig into it. Thanks again Dennis From: Marco Nawijn [mailto:naw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 10:28 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Programmable Filter with Multiple Inputs

2015-09-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
[mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 11:12 AM To: Dennis Conklin Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Programmable Filter with Multiple Inputs Dennis, That's indeed a problem, currently the order of inputs for the Programmable Filter

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-29 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, It appears that the help or Documentation provided in the xml file is not accessible from Paraview. I could not access it for the original files from the blog, or from mine. Perhaps I just don’t understand the proper way to access it, but all I got with clicking on ? or hitting F1 was

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
Cory, Wow, that’s exactly what I need – now I just need to get some time to re-implement my filters using this! Thanks again Dennis From: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quam...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:07 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Pa

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
One more question – the original article says that Alternatively, the Script properties can be hidden completely from the properties panel. How is this accomplished? Thanks again Dennis From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:20 PM To: 'Cory Quammen' <cory.q

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
, September 24, 2015 3:13 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel Hi Dennis, The converter evaluates your Python script and th

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quam...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 1:02 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] More Customization of Python programmable Filter P

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
ideas on how to overcome this. I loaded the TestFilter.xml from the blog and that is also greyed-out.I loaded the DoubleHelixSource.xml and that is available in the Sources menu and runs. Thanks Dennis From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:18 PM To: 'Cory Quammen

[Paraview] More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-09-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Pat Marion discussed adding interactive Properties for a Programmable Filter here: http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/534 I have a few questions about this: 1. Is this still valid for v4.4 with the original python_filter_generator.py? 2. Have we added any other capability.

[Paraview] Exodus Block Names

2015-08-28 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Once again, I need help. We are starting to assign names to our Exodus blocks (outside of Paraview). This is very useful for ease and clarity of post processing and allows convenient reference to actual components. The good news is that Paraview seems perfectly happy to read in the

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel

2015-10-06 Thread Dennis Conklin
...@kitware.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:05 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] More Customization of Python programmable Filter Panel Hi Dennis, The documentation that

Re: [Paraview] Silce Feature Question

2015-10-06 Thread Dennis Conklin
Michael, Do you really need all those slices simultaneously? Something that I have found very useful is to create a single slice and then rotate the mesh thru it. If you animate the rotation (Transform) then you can also get a very nice animation of the slices by setting the camera

[Paraview] Re: Can ParaView create "envelope" or cumulative maximums

2015-12-04 Thread Dennis Conklin
Alan, My first thought is to run Temporal Statistics with Maximum selected and paint by that. Is that not working? Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html

Re: [Paraview] Can ParaView create "envelope" or cumulative maximums

2015-12-04 Thread Dennis Conklin
Jean, Manipulating time inside pipeline objects is explained pretty well here: http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/989 Dennis From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 11:08 AM To: 'paraview@paraview.org' <paraview@paraview.org> Cc: Alan Scott (wasc...@sandia.gov)

[Paraview] Annotate animation with expression of Field Data

2016-01-05 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have a user who needs to display an animation with the total vertical force at each timepoint. The total vertical force can be calculated by an expression involving 4 Field Data quantites (reactions at 4 points). We have been able to use the expression in PythonAnnotate to calculate

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Annotate animation with expression of Field Data

2016-01-05 Thread Dennis Conklin
Cory, Thanks for that tip. We are using it as I write. Dennis From: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quam...@kitware.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 2:32 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] R

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Customize programmable filters: copy arrays

2015-11-20 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Can anyone confirm that PassData() works this way? I tried using PassData() and then appending a new variable and the memory usage seems to indicate that I ended up with a DeepCopy() Thanks Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other

Re: [Paraview] ANN: ParaView 5.1.0 available for download

2016-06-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
Utkarsh, et al., There is a problem with missing cell variables in v5.1. To replicate it load bake.e.In v4.4 and v5.0.1, there are 3 cell variables, Object IDs, Global Element IDs, and processor_id, which can be loaded from the file. In v5.1, there are only 2 cell variables available for

Re: [Paraview] Building a stress tensor to compute eigenvalues and engenvectors

2016-02-10 Thread Dennis Conklin
Remy, Attached is a programmable filter I wrote to do just this. It should be fairly obvious, but ask questions if it isn't. Dennis import numpy # # # Gdyr_Principal_Strains #Rev 0 #Aug 27, 2015 # Dennis Conklin - Engineering Mechanics # Modularized using Utility routines

[Paraview] Simple questions on Points in Unstructured Grid

2016-02-05 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I need to write a routine to find voids in a mesh but I don't understand some simple stuff about points. I want to take a section of points in a given box - say a range of Theta and range of Y to select the points in the box - I used Find Data but Trace didn't seem to give me the full

[Paraview] Linux memory problems exclusive to Paraview

2016-01-19 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I will never be mistaken for a Linux sys admin, so let me try to tell you what is happening in a hopefully understandable way. We run Paraview standalone on our workstations - no remote server, etc. Just running the executables DL'ed from the website. We constantly have an issue with

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Linux memory problems exclusive to Paraview

2016-01-21 Thread Dennis Conklin
executables DL’ed from the website, so I’m not sure I can change any flags for memory management. Thanks for taking a look at this. Dennis From: David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.dema...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:10 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Pa

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to find the distance to nearest node for each node in MultiBlockDataset

2016-01-22 Thread Dennis Conklin
. Thanks Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 4:18 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview]

[Paraview] How to find the distance to nearest node for each node in MultiBlockDataset

2016-01-22 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have tried vtk.vtkKdTree before and never got the right answer, so before I write a bruteforce method I thought I should ask. The points are nodes for truss elements and I need to check if they are closer than a cord diameter, which would be physically impossible. So I thought I

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Linux memory problems exclusive to Paraview

2016-01-22 Thread Dennis Conklin
22, 2016 7:31 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: David E DeMarle <dave.dema...@kitware.com>; Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Linux memory problems exclusive to Paraview See: http://www.linuxatemyram

Re: [Paraview] How to find the distance to nearest node for each node in MultiBlockDataset

2016-01-25 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Still stupid! I think I can loop thru nodes directly without looping thru individual blocks (want inter-block distance anyway) The problem is I import x,y,z of nodes and then calculate distance with them and the result is not a float or a string so I have problems comparing it to other

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: How to find the distance to nearest node for each node in MultiBlockDataset

2016-01-27 Thread Dennis Conklin
again for your help Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 12:42 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] R

Re: [Paraview] Get the name of a dataset

2016-02-19 Thread Dennis Conklin
Peter, You could add a fake (point or cell) variable from the Calculator and then test for that in the Programmable Filter Variable ->Name:DataSetName (=0?) Within the filter you could search the keys for "Name:" and split out the DataSetName. Not very clean, but doable. If you run a

Re: [Paraview] Non-uniform colormaps in Paraview

2016-04-07 Thread Dennis Conklin
Ruggiero, I think your problem is that it will always linearly interpolate between specified values so you need to specify zones of constant color with very small transitions. I have attached a colormap which I use to implement a 16 color spectrum. See it for an example. Hope this helps

[Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-12 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, So I started testing Paraview v5.0.1 Linux and it doesn't work with RealVNC v4, or v5.1.1 or v5.3 (dies with Segmentation fault without even displaying a screen). Earlier versions of Paraview work but not 5.0.1. I am not very familiar with VNC. Are there graphics or other options in

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
...@kitware.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:05 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC Sorry, forgot to cc the list. Hi Dennis, a few questions: Are you using t

Re: [Paraview] plot min/max/average of a variable in all cells/point of a block over time?

2016-03-23 Thread Dennis Conklin
Alan, Couldn't you just select the block, then use Plot Selection Over Time with "Only Report Selection Statistics" selected, without actually extracting each block? Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at

Re: [Paraview] Threshold not working on points created from csv file

2016-03-22 Thread Dennis Conklin
Ethan, I think the basic problem is that the output of Threshold is always element -centric. You can select points in Threshold, but those points will define cells and only the points in the defined cells are in the output. So once your output doesn't include all the points in your single

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
...@kitware.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:05 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC Sorry, forgot to cc the list. Hi Dennis, a few questions: Are you using the binaries f

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC Sorry, forgot to cc the list. Hi Dennis, a few questions: Are you using the binaries from paraview.org<http://paraview.org/

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-13 Thread Dennis Conklin
GL extensions: From: Chuck Atkins [mailto:chuck.atk...@kitware.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:56 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] v5.0.1 & RealVNC Hi Dennis, I suspect th

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-14 Thread Dennis Conklin
soon. Dennis From: Chuck Atkins [mailto:chuck.atk...@kitware.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 2:38 PM To: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> Cc: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com>; ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [Para

[Paraview] Threshold doesn't find range of some variables

2016-04-26 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have a cell variable which is actually sort of a "grouping" variable.So let's call the variable "Group". I have 180 elements that have a value of "1", 180 elements that have a value of "2", etc. In Paraview v5.0.1 When I click on the "Reset using current data values" arrow in

Re: [Paraview] Plotting Global Variables Over Time - Connecting first and last data points?

2016-04-26 Thread Dennis Conklin
Ryan, Not just plot over time - Plot Data does the same thing and it's equally annoying. Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages

Re: [Paraview] Plotting Global Variables Over Time - Connecting first and last data points?

2016-04-28 Thread Dennis Conklin
I see the first and last points connected for Plot Over Time and for Plot Data. I am running on a Linux workstation. Dennis From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:16 AM To: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: RE: Plotting Global Variables Ove

Re: [Paraview] Dropping support for OpenGL1 in ParaView 5.2

2016-05-11 Thread Dennis Conklin
Utkarsh, As we are having trouble running the latest versions of Paraview due to our antiquated graphics libraries, is there anything special that has to be done to be run the legacy rendering backend? Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-14 Thread Dennis Conklin
5.0/mesa-llvm/libGL.so.1) Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:55 AM To: Scott, W Alan <wasc...@sandia.gov> Cc: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com>; ParaView Mailing List <paraview@par

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-14 Thread Dennis Conklin
by then. Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 2:56 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Scott, W Alan <wasc...@sandia.gov>; ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.o

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: [EXT] Re: v5.0.1 & RealVNC

2016-04-20 Thread Dennis Conklin
: Scott, W Alan [mailto:wasc...@sandia.gov] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 7:27 PM To: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> Cc: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com>; ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: v5.0.

[Paraview] Link DISPLAY properties such as ColorArrayName and plots

2016-07-28 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I can't figure out how to do this, maybe it's possible. People get multiple views up with a different model in each and they would like to link ColorArrayName so that they can paint each with a variable, then change 1 window to a different variable and have all windows update. I have

[Paraview] Homebrew Point-Data-To-Cell-Data is too slow - what's the magic

2016-07-22 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I need a couple homebrew versions of Pt-to-Cell Data because: 1. I don't want all pts variables done - just 1 at a time 2. I need special handling for angles that go from -180 to +180 (when 1 end of element has angle of -178 and other end has angle of 180, a straight average

[Paraview] How to extract a free-body-diagram type force and moment summary for a subset of model

2017-01-26 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Sometimes it is helpful to take a subset of a real world problem and create a lab specimen of that subset and subject it to realistic loadings in order to replicate the real world problem. Many times we have tried to cut an internal chunk out of a solid mechanics FEA model and

Re: [Paraview] Writer plugin with selection of data arrays to output

2017-01-30 Thread Dennis Conklin
Sergey, You could combine the PassArrays filter and your custom writer into a Custom Filter and then Expose the properties of Cell Data Arrays and Point Data Arrays from the PassArray filter within your Custom Filter. This would allow your users to select which arrays to pass and write them

Re: [Paraview] Extracting the Cartesian coordinates of points

2017-02-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
Maria, I'm not sure if you want nodal coordinates or induced current components but either way you could get them as: Calculator filter - make a vector from your desired components like: Name: coordinates Expression: coords_X*iHat+coords_Y*jHat+coords_Z*kHat Then use Selection Display

Re: [Paraview] volume vs volume

2017-02-15 Thread Dennis Conklin
Alan, A quick and dirty way to get individual element volumes is to use the mesh refinement filter and set the Quality measure to volume. Then the "Quality" variable in the elements is actually volume. Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit

Re: [Paraview] volume vs volume

2017-02-15 Thread Dennis Conklin
Oops - meant Mesh Quality filter From: Dennis Conklin Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7:56 AM To: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [Paraview] volume vs volume Alan, A quick and dirty way to get individual element volumes is to use the mesh refi

Re: [Paraview] Examples of Field Variables Manipulation for Exodus Multi-block datasets

2017-02-16 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I realize I didn't give much detail - I would hopefully like to know how to do this inside a Programmable Filter, since that is where I am calculating the Total Volume. Thanks, Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware

Re: [Paraview] Examples of Field Variables Manipulation for Exodus Multi-block datasets

2017-02-16 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, Sorry, I answered my own question - I was afraid Field Variables were buried in the "meta" like the Block names were. They were actually a little simpler once I found some time to poke around. To add Total_Volume as a Field Variable inside programmable filter: ...

[Paraview] Examples of Field Variables Manipulation for Exodus Multi-block datasets

2017-02-15 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I can't find a good example of manipulating Field Variables (Global Variables) in Exodus Multi-block datasets. For instance, I wrote a filter to calculate the total_volume of a mesh. Currently I print this out to the screen. I would like to add a Field variable of Total_volume but I

[Paraview] EXODUS: How to find nodes that are common to more than 1 sideset

2016-09-02 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I want to search or query for nodes that are in more than 1 sideset, as common nodes drive Multi-Point Constraints crazy. I don't have any great ideas. Do any of you? Thanks for any hints you may have. Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: EXODUS: How to find nodes that are common to more than 1 sideset

2016-09-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
mes and never would have figured it out on my own. Dennis -Original Message- From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 8:48 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@pa

[Paraview] Anyone know of a reader for SAT (Saved As Text) files, which are Spatial (ACIS) geometry format

2016-09-14 Thread Dennis Conklin
This format: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/sat/sat.pdf ___ 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:

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Is the PythonAnnotation documentation obsolete?

2016-09-09 Thread Dennis Conklin
achit [mailto:utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 10:54 AM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com> Cc: Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Is the PythonAnnotation documentation obsolete? Dennis, Python Annot

[Paraview] Is the PythonAnnotation documentation obsolete?

2016-09-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have tried to use PythonAnnotation but it only seems to work properly with FieldVariables. So for instance, with field variables of REACTZ_901 and REACTZ_902, the following expressions work and display the values as expected REACTZ_901displays array of

Re: [Paraview] Regarding filtering of point data array

2016-11-08 Thread Dennis Conklin
Cory, Couldn't you isolate the points without creating cells using Find Data and a query with a few AND's? Dennis ___ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please

Re: [Paraview] csv point data through time

2016-11-10 Thread Dennis Conklin
Andrea, I'm sure someone else will have a more elegant solution, but for a quick workaround I would threshold on time then animate the min and max and you could play the animation to see these over time - going to an individual frame would show you a specific time period Hope this helps

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] RE: [EXT] Re: Any way to select nodes that are inside a volume

2016-10-25 Thread Dennis Conklin
Ken, I might be a little dense here, but I missed the part where I clip the truss elements by the surface of the solid before writing them out. Dennis From: Moreland, Kenneth [mailto:kmo...@sandia.gov] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 5:33 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.

[Paraview] Any way to select nodes that are inside a volume

2016-10-21 Thread Dennis Conklin
All, I have a solid blob of elements. Then I have a large cloud of embedded rebars that is much bigger than the solid blob. I only want rebars that are inside the blob.Is there anyway to select only the rebar (truss element) nodes that are inside the solid blob. Like if I extract

Re: [Paraview] [EXT] Re: Any way to select nodes that are inside a volume

2016-10-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
Ken, Yes it is a multiblock dataset and the rebar blocks are different than the hex blocks. Dennis From: Moreland, Kenneth [mailto:kmo...@sandia.gov] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:56 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com>; Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] RE: [EXT] Re: Any way to select nodes that are inside a volume

2016-10-24 Thread Dennis Conklin
4:28 PM To: Dennis Conklin <dennis_conk...@goodyear.com>; Paraview (paraview@paraview.org) <paraview@paraview.org> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: [EXT] Re: [Paraview] Any way to select nodes that are inside a volume Having the data in multiblock format is good. It is pretty easy to

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