[Paraview] Setting Min/Max for Data set

[Mike Jackson]

Is there anything special I should know about using a  
vtkMultiGroupDataSet object? Any special Rendering things that I  
should know about?
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Aug 28, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Sean Ziegeler (Contractor) wrote:

> Well, if no one knows of any "global set bounds" functionality (I  
> don't), there's one work-around you could use.  Your reader could  
> create a multi-group data set.  Obviously one member of the group  
> would be your current time-series data.  The other member could be  
> a box or just 8 bounding points, or the convex-hull of all of your  
> time-variant grids, or whatever makes the most sense for your  
> data.  You might have to use points with no connectivity that way  
> if you render as a surface, it won't occlude your actual data.   
> Anyway, you get the idea, create some static object in the group  
> that forces the outer bounds to that size.
>
> Hope that's helpful,
> Sean
>
> Mike Jackson wrote:
>> I have a custom reader that I am developing. One of the issues I  
>> have is that I need to set the "boundaries" of the data set so  
>> that they will not change with each time step. I am generating an  
>> unstructured grid from my reader (which contains multiple data  
>> sets). The actual boundaries of the simulation is stored in the  
>> header of my file which I successfully read. I guess I am not sure  
>> what to do with this information now that I have it. The problem  
>> is that if I turn on the "Cube Axes" option, the animate through  
>> my file, the cube axes will grow as the limits of my simulation  
>> grow. How/what do I set in what object to fix these limits? Is  
>> this possible?
>> Thanks for any and all help.
>> -- 
>> Mike Jackson
>> imikejackson & gmail * com
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