[Paraview] Load many VTK from different folders at once

[David E DeMarle]

Tools->Start Trace
..do something..
Tools->Stop Trace

In 3.8 I think it was buried under tools->python shell.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Lorenzo <lovecraft22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry David, what do you mean with "record a trace"?
>
>
> Il giorno 23/mar/2012, alle ore 19:03, David E DeMarle ha scritto:
>
>> You can also record either a trace or a state file in paraview where
>> you load a couple of files, then edit that recorded file in a text
>> editor and add in the additional files. Of the two, the trace file,
>> being a python script, is easier to edit and programmatically extend.
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Lorenzo <lovecraft22 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you Frank;
>>> I know about this, I just would like to find a way to load everything as a vtk as well…
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno 23/mar/2012, alle ore 17:47, Albina, Frank ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Hi Lorenzo!
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you'd better off with reading the OpenFOAM solution with the built-in OpenFOAM reader. Just create in your case directory an empty OF.foam file and you can start reading the solution by opening this file from the GUI.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Frank.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo
>>>> Sent: Freitag, 23. März 2012 17:11
>>>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Load many VTK from different folders at once
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking: maybe there's a way to create a text files (or something in another format) which contains the paths to the vtk files I need to open and this file could be submitted to paraview to automate the whole process of opening every each one of the vtk files...
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno 22/mar/2012, alle ore 20:26, lore ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I am using openFoam and when I run foamToVTK I get many vtk files every each
>>>>> one of which is contained in a different folder. If my geometry is made up by
>>>>> many .stl different files then I get the same number of folders. This is quite
>>>>> annoying when I need to load up the whole geometry because I need to enter
>>>>> the first folder and load the first .vtk, then go to file-->open-->enter the
>>>>> second folder and load the second .vtk and so on until I loaded all the files I
>>>>> need. As you may understand this is quite time consuming... Any way to do the
>>>>> whole process at once?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the best way would be to link together all of these vtk files into one
>>>>> single file (even of a different format) using a script (sh, python, bash...??).
>>>>>
>>>>> This is something you may do with the .stl files, if they are in binary format
>>>>> you may concatenate the content of each one of them into a single different
>>>>> file and then load just that one to have everything at once...
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>
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