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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Maybe try upgrading to the latest/greatest ParaView on the web site?&nbsp; It is 3.98.1.&nbsp; What is your platform?&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t see &nbsp;Python Shell under the Tools
 tab, your issue has changed from &#8220;how to create and run this script&#8221; to &#8220;Why don&#8217;t I have Python&#8221;.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Daniel WEI [mailto:lakeat@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> paraview<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Auto save images<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Wait, I can't find what you said &quot;start/stop trace&quot;, nor can I find any python under tools menu? Am I using a wrong paraview? My is ParaView 3.14.1 64 bit. Ubuntu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">University of Notre Dame</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Scott, W Alan &lt;<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov" target="_blank">wascott@sandia.gov</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Yes, there is.&nbsp; Create a Python script of what you want to do.&nbsp; Easiest way is to open ParaView, Tools/ Start Trace, do your work, Tools/ Stop Trace.&nbsp; Save the file somewhere.&nbsp;
 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Then, close ParaView, and run your script with pvbatch your-script.py</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Is that what you are asking?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
<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>
<b>To:</b> paraview<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Auto save images</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Is there a way to run paraview in batch mode. I want to save images automatically.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">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
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Is it possible? How? What kind of scripts should I write?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Many thanks in advance!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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