[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Groups of blocks

[Scott, W Alan]

Yes, that is exactly what the user was describing.  Thanks, I passed on your e-mails to my user.  Will let you know if I get more information.

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 6:28 PM
To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
Cc: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] Groups of blocks

Alan,

Wouldn't that be supported by the XML/hierarchy file (or whatever it's
called) mechanism in Exodus?
Load the attached exii file, then on  the reader's properties panel, set the XML file name to be the attached artifact.dta file. On Apply, the "Assemblies" tab, next to the "Blocks" tab should show an hierarchy of blocks. Is that what your user is looking for? Currently, this information is not used besides this panel. Our ultimate goal is communicate this information throughout the app, so that panels like Multiblock Inspector, or Extract Block etc will also show the blocks organized as shown in the "Assemblies" panel.

Utkarsh


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 5:47 PM Scott, W Alan via Paraview-developers < paraview-developers at public.kitware.com> wrote:

> I had a user come into my office yesterday.  He has been asking the
different code teams if we could modify the Exodus spec, and the tools, to allow holding parts within parts, or groups within groups, or sub-blocks within blocks.  My poor choice of words.  Here is an example.



> He would like to have a dataset called “car”.  Within the car is a 
> block
or group called an Engine.  We could only load the block engine.  Under this would be sub-blocks called pistons, head, connecting rod, etc.  Now, you could turn on and off these subparts.



> The questions are first, is this valuable and worth the effort?  
> Second,
if we had a spec from Greg Sjaardema, how much effort would this be?



> Thanks,



> Alan



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