[Paraview] How to export .x3d files from python script?

Fri Nov 1 16:57:20 EDT 2013

I think Utkarsh pushed some stuff to generate some documentation related to
that.
This should start showing up in couple of days here:

http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/py-doc/index.html

Seb

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:

>  I finally tried to follow up on this, and since I am downloading binary
> releases, there is no such directory for me of course.
> Where can I find a reference or generate one for the python interface?
>  How do people learn this stuff or explore it?
> -- Rich
>
>
>  On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>  All the Proxy/Python informations are stored in the XML files under
> src/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/SMApplication/Resources/*
>
>  That's the way I do it... ;-)
>
>  Seb
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>>  Maybe the active view is not the one that has your rendering.
>> You may need to call SetView(RenderView2).
>>
>>  Seb
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>  Arrgh!
>>> I tried the following and the resulting file did not contain my
>>> isosurface as created by the below script.  What am I doing wrong here?
>>>  Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness posts here…
>>>
>>>  >>> exporters=servermanager.createModule("exporters")
>>>
>>>  >>> x3dExporter=exporters.X3DExporter(FileName="test.x3d")
>>> >>> view = GetActiveView()
>>>
>>>  >>> x3dExporter.SetView(view) # <===== NEW LINE
>>>
>>>  >>> x3dExporter.Write()
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:14 PM, "Cook, Rich" <cook47 at llnl.gov>
>>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>  … and immediately got the answer from google:
>>> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2012-May/024921.html
>>>
>>>  However, I'm still curious as to how the person in question discovered
>>> how to do it.  Where is all the good python documentation/lore stored?  The
>>> wiki wasn't too helpful to me in that respect, i.e., as a reference,
>>> although it has a lot of good ideas/information.
>>>
>>>  -- Rich
>>>
>>>  On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Cook, Rich" <cook47 at llnl.gov>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  I recorded a script to try to understand how to export a time series
>>> of an isosurface as .x3d files so I can muck with them using blender.  But
>>> when I look at the script, the crucial bit of exporting the .x3d did not
>>> get captured.  Is that part not scriptable?  How can I go about finding out
>>> for myself which file formats can be exported from python scripts, if any?
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>  Here is the script that got captured:
>>>
>>>  try: paraview.simple
>>> except: from paraview.simple import *
>>> paraview.simple._DisableFirstRenderCameraReset()
>>>
>>>  plot_raw = VisItMirandaReader(
>>> FileName='/nfs/tmp2/rcook/miranda/IRM_512_r1/plot.raw' )
>>>
>>>  AnimationScene2 = GetAnimationScene()
>>> AnimationScene1 = GetAnimationScene()
>>> plot_raw.CellArrays = []
>>> plot_raw.Materials = []
>>> plot_raw.Meshes = ['mesh']
>>> plot_raw.PointArrays = []
>>>
>>>  AnimationScene2.EndTime = 110.0
>>> AnimationScene2.PlayMode = 'Snap To TimeSteps'
>>>
>>>  AnimationScene1.EndTime = 110.0
>>> AnimationScene1.PlayMode = 'Snap To TimeSteps'
>>>
>>>  RenderView2 = GetRenderView()
>>> DataRepresentation4 = Show()
>>> DataRepresentation4.Representation = 'Outline'
>>> DataRepresentation4.ScaleFactor = 51.200000000000003
>>> DataRepresentation4.EdgeColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.50000762951094835]
>>> DataRepresentation4.SelectionCellFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>>>
>>>  plot_raw.CellArrays = ['density']
>>>
>>>  CellDatatoPointData2 = CellDatatoPointData()
>>>
>>>  RenderView2.CameraFocalPoint = [255.5, 255.5, -0.5]
>>> RenderView2.CameraClippingRange = [829.67380753909174,
>>> 2829.4767488865327]
>>> RenderView2.CameraPosition = [-979.92119013571846, 1113.4340644820502,
>>> -820.67547187352602]
>>>
>>>  DataRepresentation5 = Show()
>>> DataRepresentation5.EdgeColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.50000762951094835]
>>> DataRepresentation5.SelectionPointFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>>> DataRepresentation5.SelectionCellFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>>> DataRepresentation5.Representation = 'Outline'
>>> DataRepresentation5.ScaleFactor = 51.200000000000003
>>>
>>>  DataRepresentation4.Visibility = 0
>>>
>>>  Contour2 = Contour( PointMergeMethod="Uniform Binning" )
>>>
>>>  Contour2.PointMergeMethod = "Uniform Binning"
>>> Contour2.ContourBy = ['POINTS', 'density']
>>> Contour2.Isosurfaces = [2.0]
>>>
>>>  DataRepresentation6 = Show()
>>> DataRepresentation6.ScaleFactor = 51.200000000000003
>>> DataRepresentation6.EdgeColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.50000762951094835]
>>> DataRepresentation6.SelectionPointFieldDataArrayName = 'Normals'
>>> DataRepresentation6.SelectionCellFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>>>
>>>  AnimationScene2.AnimationTime = 10.0
>>>
>>>  RenderView2.CameraViewUp = [-0.80853642549145055,
>>> -0.58010037415785698, 0.098754263479722132]
>>> RenderView2.CacheKey = 10.0
>>> RenderView2.CameraPosition = [402.40688029765732, -227.93136313665994,
>>> -1637.4840153022406]
>>> RenderView2.CameraClippingRange = [1504.1196765479444, 1981.483268233957]
>>> RenderView2.ViewTime = 10.0
>>> RenderView2.RemoteRenderThreshold = 2.0
>>> RenderView2.UseCache = 0
>>> RenderView2.CameraFocalPoint = [255.5, 255.49999999999989,
>>> -0.49999999999999883]
>>>
>>>  Render()
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>  --
> ✐Richard Cook
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