[Paraview] Convert file types with python

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey David,

Only responding to one little piece, it's:

servermanager.writers.XMLPolyDataWriter()

-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On Apr 24, 2009, at 1:04 PM, David Doria wrote:

> I want to open some .ply files and save them as .vtp files in a  
> python script.
>
> For reading vtp's, I've used
> reader =  
> servermanager.sources.XMLPolyDataReader(FileName=ModelFilename)
>
> I saw there was a vtkPly class, so I tried
>     reader = servermanager.sources.PlyFile(FileName=ModelFilename)
> and it says "no attribute PlyFile"
>
> For writing a vtp, I thought it may be something like
> rep.XMLPolyDataWriter(NewFilename)
> or
> servermanager.sources.XMLPolyDataWriter(NewFilename)
>
> but both give errors.
>
> Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Also, I'm curious why Paraview does not have the ability to  
> import .obj files? That seems to be what many algorithms take as  
> input and give as output, so I find myself using Blender to convert  
> obj to ply, then Paraview to convert ply to vtp. Does anyone else  
> think it would be nice to support .obj's?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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