[Paraview] Cutting With Python

[Robert Maynard]

This is most likely your best bet:
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2008-February/006831.html

Kent Eschenberg wrote:
> To make a simple cut it seems like I need the following. I left out 
> all the rest to make this post as short as possible.
>
> ==============================================
> from paraview import servermanager
> servermanager.Connect()
> cutF = servermanager.vtk.vtkPlane()
> cut = servermanager.filters.Cut()
> cut.CutFunction = cutF
> ==============================================
>
> But here's what pvbatch says. I deleted the path up to the build 
> directory (mpi).
>
> ==============================================
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "t4.py", line 5, in ?
>     cut.CutFunction = cutF
>   File "/mpi/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/paraview/servermanager.py", 
> line 1488, in setProperty
>     return self.SetPropertyWithName(propName, value)
>   File "/mpi/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/paraview/servermanager.py", 
> line 163, in SetPropertyWithName
>     prop.SetData(arg)
>   File "/mpi/Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/paraview/servermanager.py", 
> line 487, in SetData
>     self.SMProperty.AddProxy(value_proxy)
> TypeError: function takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
> ==============================================
>
> Using 3.2.1 on CentOS 5. Any ideas?
>
> TIA!
> Kent
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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