<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Wait, I can't find what you said "start/stop trace", nor can I find any python under tools menu? Am I using a wrong paraview? My is ParaView 3.14.1 64 bit. Ubuntu</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thanks, and Yes, that is basically what I need. Ultimately, I would hope I can save images for my velocity field or pressure field without opening paraview window, I hope I can just modify the script to do it.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Scott, W Alan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov" target="_blank">wascott@sandia.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes, there is. Create a Python script of what you want to do. Easiest way is to open ParaView, Tools/ Start Trace, do your work, Tools/ Stop Trace. Save
the file somewhere. To test it, start ParaView from scratch (or just delete everything in the pipeline browser), Tools/ Python Shell/ Run Script/ select the python script you choose earlier.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Then, close ParaView, and run your script with pvbatch your-script.py<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Is that what you are asking?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Alan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview-bounces@paraview.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview-bounces@paraview.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel WEI<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:44 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Auto save images<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Is there a way to run paraview in batch mode. I want to save images automatically.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">What I am doing is pretty simple, use paraview to view an flow field and then pan it and zoom into a certain region and then save the screenshot. That's it. I dont want
to repeat this operation all the time. I want to do it for all my cases in the back-end and in batch mode without opening paraview window.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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