[Paraview] Vis template by changing reader file names?

[clinton at elemtech.com]

Have you tried putting your pipeline into a custom filters?
Select all the filters you want included, then create the custom filter from 
the group using the menu item  Tools -> Create Custom Filter...

To use it, just open your file and apply the one filter.

Clint

On Monday 25 August 2008 1:22:48 pm Eric E. Monson wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> My group wants to use ParaView for debugging their simulation system,
> where they might output many different files in a day with tweaked
> parameters and want to quickly view the results to see whether things
> are changing the way they expect.
>
> The problem is that for each run there are three different output
> (unstructured grid) files, and to make a nice visualization each has
> to be glyphed or colored or filtered in some special way. I can do
> this, and it looks great, but it takes a while to set up each time a
> new set of files is generated, so it's a bit of a pain.
>
> Therefore, main question: Once a visualization pipeline is set up, is
> there any easy way to pick new files for the readers so new data could
> quickly be visualized using an existing "template"?
>
> I have tried reading in new files and using the "Change Input..." menu
> item, but it's a bit of a pain because it's a multi-step method that
> changes the order of items in the Pipeline Browser each time you do
> it. I know how to save a state file and then edit the source file
> names for the readers, but this takes the user out of ParaView and is
> a little clunky, but do-able. I can also write a python script that
> loads a state file and changes the input files and creates an
> animation automatically, but that isn't as flexible as looking at the
> data in ParaView itself. (I also tried to change a source file name
> from the Python shell within ParaView, but at least with an Xdmf file,
> that always crashes ParaView when I'm driving...)
>
> Am I missing something clean and easy? Is this a typical thing people
> would want to routinely do with ParaView?
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Eric E Monson
> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>
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