[Paraview] ParaView and Python general questions

[Milos Ilak]

Hi,

I am new to ParaView and not entirely new to Python. I have been trying to
create Python scripts to automate some animations with volume rendering that
I have been working on.

I have found it very difficult to find out how to do various things from
Python that are easily accessible from the main ParaView GUI. I haven't been
able to find detailed documentation, except for the "ParaView Scripting with
Python" document, and by looking at the properties of the Python modules
using dir, help, etc, it is very hard to find out how some things are done
and I have to admit that I am a bit lost. I was wondering if a more
comprehensive guide than this document and the 'Python Recipes' page exists,
or at least some guidelines on how to find out how things are done from the
servermanager module.

Some things I would like to do is for example to load a preset for the
opacity function for volume rendering that I have created and saved using
the GUI, to show/hide axes and the rotation center when rendering, etc.

Also, I have read about some bugs being fixed (for example showing/hiding
the center of the axes). In order to have those fixes, can I get an updated
Python module and how? I am currently using Paraview 3.6.1., but should soon
upgrade to 3.8.0.

Thank you,

Milos


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