[Paraview] On more filter optional parameters setup

[Berk Geveci]

Unless I remember it wrong, there is also a way of simply loading the
server manager xml instead of a plugin.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> You can of course modify the paraview source and recompile.
> Specifically what you would do is edit the XML element that defines
> the proxy for that filter in Servers/ServerManager/filter.xml in order
> to add additional property definitions to let paraview expose those
> missing filter methods.
>
> An alternative way to do it is to write a plugin, consisting of a
> small CMakeLists.txt file and a small XML file and recompile only
> that. The XML file makes an alternative proxy for the same filter.
>
> The benefit of the second option is quicker compile time and better
> isolation of the modifications you are making to ParaView.
>
> cheers,
> Dave DeMarle
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Jia Fucang <jiafucang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, everyone,
>>
>> I often use Paraview for visualization of medical object geometry models
>> and do some filtering. But I noticed that Paraview does not offer many
>> parameters setup by user, like VTK filters. For example,
>> SmoothPolyDataFilter,
>> it can be used like
>>     vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter *smoother = vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter::New();
>>     smoother->SetInput(surface->GetOutput());
>>
>>     smoother->SetRelaxationFactor(0.1);
>>     smoother->SetFeatureAngle(60);
>>     smoother->FeatureEdgeSmoothingOff();
>>     smoother->BoundarySmoothingOff();
>>
>>     smoother->SetNumberOfIterations(50);
>>     smoother->SetConvergence(0);
>>
>> Paraview 3.4.0 only display "Number of Iterations" and "Convergence" for
>> user to setup. This often does not provide good effect like the C++ one.
>>
>> Another example is
>> vtkDecimatePro *decimate = vtkDecimatePro::New();
>>     decimate->SetInput(smoother->GetOutput());
>>
>>     decimate->SplittingOff();
>>     decimate->SetErrorIsAbsolute(5);
>>     decimate->SetDegree(10);
>>     decimate->SetMaximumError(0.005);
>>
>>     decimate->SetTargetReduction(0.8);
>>     decimate->PreserveTopologyOn();
>>     decimate->SetFeatureAngle(30);
>>     decimate->BoundaryVertexDeletionOff();
>>
>>
>> Corresponding filter in Paraview 3.4.0 only have following options to setup:
>>    Target Reduction, Preserve Topology, Feature Angle and BoundVertex
>> Deletion.
>>
>> I know that too much options may confuse user. I wonder if there are some
>> setup to
>> use more options. Or should I revise ParaView source code to recompile a
>> binary one.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> Best,
>> Fucang
>>
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