[Paraview] vtk ascii to binary

[Berk Geveci]

No. I am afraid you need ParaView 3.6 for this to work. The binaries
are on the ParaView website.

Best,
-berk


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Rafael Pacheco<rpacheco at math.asu.edu> wrote:
> Berk,
>
> I have ParaView 3.2.3 just installed by the system administrator in ubuntu. I
> got the following error trying to read paraview.simple:
>
>>>> from paraview.simple import *
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named paraview.simple
>
> Is there other way to get around this?
> Thanks!
> Rafael
>
>> With ParaView 3.6, you can do:
>>
>> from paraview.simple import *
>> r = LegacyVTKReader()
>> r.FileNames = ["foo.vtk"]
>> w = servermanager.writers.DataSetWriter()
>> w.Input = r
>> w.FileName = "bar.vtk"
>> w.UpdatePipeline()
>>
>> You will have to create a loop where you do the following 3:
>>
>> for index in range...:
>>   r.FileNames = ["foo%d.vtk"  % index]
>>   w.FileName = "bar%d.vtk % index
>>   w.UpdatePipeline
>>
>> To convert binary to ascii, do
>> w.FileType = 'Ascii'
>>
>> -berk
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Rafael Pacheco<rpacheco at asu.edu> wrote:
>> > Berk
>> >
>> > regarding your email below, could you please be kind to provide me an
>> > example on how to load the ascii file in ParaView and saving it as binary
>> > format using a python script?  I have a series of output files a00*.vtk (vtk
>> > legacy) written in fortran and I would like to create  movie, but loading
>> > the files take long time and space.
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> > Rafael
>> >
>> >
>> >>> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 07:30:16 -0400
>> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Writing binary VTK
>> >>> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; paraview at paraview.org
>> >>>
>> >>> If you already have the ascii VTK file, you can convert it to binary
>> >>> by loading it in ParaView and saving it out as binary format. It is
>> >>> pretty easy to automate this using Python. Let me know if you need an
>> >>> example.
>> >>>
>> >>> -berk
>> >>>
>> >
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> -- Rafael
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