[Paraview] copy-paste (or ,> clone/dublicate)

[Martina Schäfer]

Dear all,

thanks for your input to my question about dublicating filter.
I'm still a bit puzzled that sth what I'd need on a daily basis and seem 
so simply to me, doesn't really exist :-).

Does anyone understand what these
http://paraview.uservoice.com/forums/11350-general/suggestions/309655-add-copy-and-paste-properties-or-clone-filter-
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.science.paraview.user/14764
posts are about? Do they understand sth different from dublicating a 
filter than me?

Sorry, maybe my messages are a bit confusing - I was looking for this 
cloneing filter not only for one single special purpose, but I'm really 
missing it on a daily basis for various applications and I am (or was at 
least) so ambitious to look for one solution that solves all of these 
applications, but probably I should give that up and deal with 
case-to-case solutions, which you gave me already quite some hints for!
With the "artifical" time-series (thanks Sam) and custom filters (thanks 
Felipe) I should be able to solve most of my issues!

Martina


@Sam:
That's a great idea for producing a lot of identical plots, thanks! The 
only thing that would go missing then with respect to my current plots 
is some text, which I had adjusted for each dataset, sort of like a 
title. (I haven't yet checked your pvd file since it was not attached to 
the email for and I haven't yet figured out how to get it, so maybe 
there is a solution for that in the pvd file which I ignore for the moment.)
Still, it doesn't satisfy me completely for other purposes, for example 
when just wanting to apply quickly the same clip to 2 or 3 datasets and 
comparing them side-by-side.

> From: Samuel Key <samuelkey at bresnan.net>
> Martina,
>
> Given that you have 20+/- datum sets (and one geometry?), you might be
> able to construct a pseudo time sequence by labeling the files:
>
> myjob001.vtu, myjob002.vtu, myjob003.vtu, ...
>
> (Note. The file-ending "*.vtu" refers to an XML-formatted datum set)
>
> ParaView will assume they are a time-sequence and you can use the
> animation to perform the identical display processing on each image,
> When you are satisfied with the results, save the animation as *.pgn
> images; you will get one frame in each datum set.
>
> If you already have a naming convention for the *.vtu files that you
> want to keep, then you can use a *.pvd meta-file to specify the
> pseudo-time sequence, see the attached *.pvd file as an example. (The
> part-tag allows sub-datum-sets; in my case there are different
> materials. The name-tag is currently a do-nothing; it is not required.)
>
> Sam

@Felipe
Thanks Felipe, I had been trying that earlier, but somehow I never 
managed to create custom filters. Now I tried again and it seemed to 
work at least for simple things like Thresholds or Clips. I have to test 
further how it'll be in my more complexer filter-chains.


> Subject: Re: [Paraview] copy-paste (or ,> clone/dublicate)
> the other way around is to create a custom filter to group all your filter into one and expose only the desired properties.
>
> Felipe