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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Thanks guys! The calculator filter does work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kudos to both Eric and David for making me understand the actual problem I was having, and then for giving me a solution.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Cheers,<BR>Emily</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> David E DeMarle<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 7/1/2011 2:35 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Guzas, Emily L CIV NUWC NWPT<BR><B>Cc:</B> Eric E. Monson; Paraview Mailing list (to use with ec-nantes)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paraview] independent colorbar range in different views of same session?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><PRE style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Hah Eric so there! :)
The calculator filter will do what you want. There are probably better
ways but the calculator will only take a minute to try.
David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Guzas, Emily L CIV NUWC NWPT
<emily.guzas@navy.mil> wrote:
> David and Eric,
>
> Thanks for the advice. Your responses have definitely helped me get closer
> to actually defining the problem more precisely.
>
> Here's some more background:
> Although I am working with two different attributes from the same analysis
> (pressure and fluidID), the exodusii converter that I'm using (written by
> someone else) only operates on one attribute at a time and defaults to
> calling this attribute "resX" in the *.exo file. So I run the converter
> twice on my data, once to get the pressure.exo file and once to get the
> fluidID.exo file, but yet both files have a common name, "resX," for the
> data attribute that I'm interested in.
>
> In ParaView, I am coloring both views by "resX", even though in view 1,
> "resX" represents pressure and in view 2, "resX" represents fluidID. See
> attached screenshot.
>
> So without having to get the exodusii converter fixed, is there a way to
> change the data name in ParaView from resX to something else, say
> "pressure", so that I can color my two views by a different variable, which
> should probably fix my problem with the independent colorbar scales?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Emily
>
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> Emily L. Guzas, Ph.D.
> Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport
> Analysis and Technology Branch, Code 4121
> Phone: 401.832.5577
> Email: emily.guzas@navy.mil
>
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> From: Eric E. Monson
> Sent: Fri 7/1/2011 1:56 PM
> To: Guzas, Emily L CIV NUWC NWPT
> Cc: David E DeMarle; Paraview Mailing list (to use with ec-nantes)
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] independent colorbar range in different views of
> same session?
>
> Hey,
>
> David, Emily seems to be describing that she already has two different
> attributes, so I'm suspecting that somehow she's mistakenly coloring by the
> same attribute in both views...
>
> Emily, as David is saying, (at least my understanding of) what you're
> wanting should be the default behavior. Make sure that when you click on
> each view the "color by" combo box changes which attribute it's listing, and
> that each colormap has "Automatically Rescale to Fit Data Range" checked in
> the colormap editor.
>
> Attached is a screen shot that I made "right out of the box" with all
> default settings, just having the surface colored by different attributes in
> different windows, and choosing an alternative to the blue-white-red
> colormap for Elevation.
>
> If you're still having trouble, maybe let us know which version of ParaView
> you're using, and on which platform, and whether you built it yourself.
>
> -Eric
>
>
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