[Paraview] Camera clipping planes

[Brad King]

Patrick Brockmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In paraview, is there a way to set a camera with your own location of
> the near and far clipping planes ?
> 
> I really need this feature to hide the far scene of my objets
> (climate earth models watched with orthographic projection).

I do not think this is currently possible.  For a particular viewpoint 
you can use a clip filter to chop away one side of the data.

> With VTK API in python, I have been able to compute this with the 
> following lines:
> def ProjOrthoResetClippingRange(obj, event):
>       camera=ren1.GetActiveCamera()
>       camera.SetFocalPoint(0,0,0)
>       camera_dist=camera.GetDistance()
>       camera.SetClippingRange(0.1,camera_dist)
> 
> ren1=vtk.vtkRenderer()
> ren1.AddObserver("ResetCameraEvent",ProjOrthoResetClippingRange)
> ren1.AddObserver("EndEvent",ProjOrthoResetClippingRange)
> 
> Let me know if this feature could be add in paraview ?

You can add it as a feature request:

http://www.paraview.org/Bug

-Brad