[Paraview] independent colorbar range in different views of same session?

[Guzas, Emily L CIV NUWC NWPT]

David and Eric,

Thanks for the advice. Your responses have definitely helped me get closer to actually defining the problem more precisely. 

Here's some more background:
Although I am working with two different attributes from the same analysis (pressure and fluidID), the exodusii converter that I'm using (written by someone else) only operates on one attribute at a time and defaults to calling this attribute "resX" in the *.exo file. So I run the converter twice on my data, once to get the pressure.exo file and once to get the fluidID.exo file, but yet both files have a common name, "resX," for the data attribute that I'm interested in.

In ParaView, I am coloring both views by "resX", even though in view 1, "resX" represents pressure and in view 2, "resX" represents fluidID. See attached screenshot.

So without having to get the exodusii converter fixed, is there a way to change the data name in ParaView from resX to something else, say "pressure", so that I can color my two views by a different variable, which should probably fix my problem with the independent colorbar scales?

Thanks!

-Emily

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From: Eric E. Monson
Sent: Fri 7/1/2011 1:56 PM
To: Guzas, Emily L CIV NUWC NWPT
Cc: David E DeMarle; Paraview Mailing list (to use with ec-nantes)
Subject: Re: [Paraview] independent colorbar range in different views of same session?


Hey,

David, Emily seems to be describing that she already has two different attributes, so I'm suspecting that somehow she's mistakenly coloring by the same attribute in both views... 

Emily, as David is saying, (at least my understanding of) what you're wanting should be the default behavior. Make sure that when you click on each view the "color by" combo box changes which attribute it's listing, and that each colormap has "Automatically Rescale to Fit Data Range" checked in the colormap editor.

Attached is a screen shot that I made "right out of the box" with all default settings, just having the surface colored by different attributes in different windows, and choosing an alternative to the blue-white-red colormap for Elevation.

If you're still having trouble, maybe let us know which version of ParaView you're using, and on which platform, and whether you built it yourself.

-Eric
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