[Paraview] Load many VTK from different folders at once

Mon Mar 26 09:52:36 EDT 2012

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Lorenzo <lovecraft22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tied that, thank you.
>
> Now, my questions are:
> 1. once I've saved a trace, how I run it in paraview?

Tools->Python Shell->Run Script

Better still, if you choose to save the trace as a macro (or just put
it into ~/.config/ParaVIew/Macros), it shows up in the macros toolbar
and you can just click to run it again.

> 2. I see the trace keeps the files path. There's no way to include these file paths within a dot_something file in the same sintax in such a way that I'll load that file in paraview and it'll automatically load all the referenced files?

The trace is just a python script. def a function that will read the
filename string, strip out the leading directory information, and
produce and loop over a list of the rest of the filenames from that.

Unfortunately python isn't tightly integrated enough yet to
automatically call your macro from the File->Open dialog.

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 6:13 PM, Lorenzo <lovecraft22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tied that, thank you.
>
> Now, my questions are:
> 1. once I've saved a trace, how I run it in paraview?
> 2. I see the trace keeps the files path. There's no way to include these file paths within a dot_something file in the same sintax in such a way that I'll load that file in paraview and it'll automatically load all the referenced files?
>
> For example this file would contain something like:
>
> geometry_1_vtk = LegacyVTKReader( FileNames=['path/to/my/file/geometry_1.vtk'] )
> geometry_2_vtk = LegacyVTKReader( FileNames=['path/to/my/file/geometry_2.vtk'] )
> geometry_3_vtk = LegacyVTKReader( FileNames=['path/to/my/file/geometry_3.vtk'] )
> geometry_4_vtk = LegacyVTKReader( FileNames=['path/to/my/file/geometry_4.vtk'] )
> …
> geometry_N_vtk = LegacyVTKReader( FileNames=['path/to/my/file/geometry_5.vtk'] )
>
> Thank you!
>
> Lore
> Il giorno 23/mar/2012, alle ore 21:40, David E DeMarle ha scritto:
>
>> 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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