[Paraview] Programmed generation of ParaView state file ?

[Cory Quammen]

Florian,

How about using a state file exported from ParaView as a template? You can
modify the template to add text tags for things that should be customized
per simulation output. When generating the simulation, just search/replace
the tags with the necessary values.

HTH,
Cory

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Florian Hoffmann <
florian.hoffmann at inutech.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> Has anybody ever tried to automatically (=by a program) generate a PV
> state file for a known pipeline with known settings ?
>
> My code is writing its simulation results into a HDF5 file. In an
> additional step I am processing this file in order to generate a/several
> corresponding XDMF file(s) in order to visualize the data with ParaView.
> That means, during creation of these XDMF files I know WHAT and HOW  I
> would like to show it in PV later. I am thinking about generating a
> corresponding state file which would load the generated XDMF files into PV
> and apply certain default but useful settings:
> For example XDMF files representing solid structures should be shown using
> 'Surface With Edges' representation and be colored by solid color, whereas
> XDMF files representing particle data (=particle centers) should be glyphed
> with a sphere and colored by their radius.
> I am aware of the absolute path issue in PV state files. But at the moment
> this is not a problem for me. My intention is to create this STATE file
> next to the generated XDMF files, allowing the user to open ‚The Case‘ in
> PV with two clicks in comparison with having to first open the XDMF files
> and then apply certain commonly used settings himself.
>
>
> 1) Does anybody has experience with this ?
>
> 2) When experimenting with the state file, I noticed that it contains a
> lot of items that can be removed without creating (obvious) problems. I
> assume if not specified in the state file, default settings are used for
> example for background color, etc. Is there some example of a ‚MINIMAL
> state file‘ that stores only the really relevant settings ?
>
>
> I know that this can also be achieved with python scripts. If anybody can
> report positive experience with state files I would opt for this one first.
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Florian
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Cory Quammen
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Kitware, Inc.
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