[Paraview] error with python state file

[pat marion]

Turns out I already made a bug report for this last time it came up.  If
you're interested, the bug report is:

http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=11765

Pat

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:48 PM, pat marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:

> The problem in general is-  the script calls Show() and depending on the
> dataset, paraview creates either a "GeometryRepresentation" or a
> "UnstructuredGridRepresentation".  The script expects one type of display to
> be created, but when it is executed with a different dataset (or possibly
> the same dataset but different blocks toggled) a different type of display
> is created.  The different display types have different properties.  The
> script tries to set properties on the display that do not exist and fails.
>
> I think it would be worth making a bug report for this and maybe we can
> come up with a solution to avoid this in future versions of paraview.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Fabian Braennstroem <
> f.braennstroem at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello Pat,
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/11/2011 10:12 PM, pat marion wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Fabian,
>>>
>>> Does the answer provided in the last paragraph of this email help?
>>>
>>> http://markmail.org/message/sq7dafegnrh7exth
>>>
>> This was obviously a similar problem, but now it is not the trace, but the
>> state file in 3.10.1.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Could you let me know, for each .foam file, what data types the
>>> multiblock dataset contains?  Are the blocks unstructured grid,
>>> polydata, other?  You should be able to avoid the problem by commenting
>>> line 186 in your plot.py file, where ScalarOpacityUnitDistance is
>>> assigned.
>>>
>>
>> Both .foam files are bascically the same geometry calculated with just a
>> different equation solver... so the structure should be quite similar.
>> Just commenting outhe the line 186 gives same error for other variables:
>>
>>
>> [ceplx049] 01__56T_SST_1.7 > pvpython plot.py
>> vtkPOpenFOAMReader : [ ...........]
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "plot.py", line 194, in <module>
>>    DataRepresentation1.ScalarOpacityFunction = a1_p_PiecewiseFunction
>>
>>  File
>> "/home/gcae504/Desktop/ParaView-3.10.1-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.10/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
>> line 207, in __setattr__
>>    "to add this attribute.")
>> AttributeError: Attribute ScalarOpacityFunction does not exist.  This
>> class does not allow addition of new attributes to avoid mistakes due to
>> typos. Use add_attribute() if you really want to add this attribute.
>>
>> [ceplx049] 01__56T_SST_1.7 > pvpython plot.py
>> vtkPOpenFOAMReader : [ ...........]
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "plot.py", line 200, in <module>
>>    DataRepresentation1.SelectMapper = 'Projected tetra'
>>
>>  File
>> "/home/gcae504/Desktop/ParaView-3.10.1-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.10/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
>> line 207, in __setattr__
>>    "to add this attribute.")
>> AttributeError: Attribute SelectMapper does not exist.  This class does
>> not allow addition of new attributes to avoid mistakes due to typos. Use
>> add_attribute() if you really want to add this attribute.
>>
>> [ceplx049] 01__56T_SST_1.7 >
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>> Fabian
>>
>>
>>
>>> Pat
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Fabian Braennstroem
>>> <f.braennstroem at gmx.de <mailto:f.braennstroem at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hello,
>>>
>>>    I am trying to adjust the filename of the python state file when
>>>    using the openfoam reader.
>>>
>>>
>>>    I adjusted the FileName entry to read the declared FILE:
>>>
>>>
>>>  FILE="/home/gcae504/HOME/scr/ceplx049/scr2/gcae504/Dissertation/3D_Nielsen/OpenFoam/01_SAS_SSTF_URANS/01__56T_SST_1.7/.foam"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    a_foam = OpenFOAMReader( guiName=".foam", Decomposepolyhedra=1,
>>>    CaseType='Decomposed Case', MeshRegions=['internalMesh'],
>>>    Createcelltopointfiltereddata=1, Cachemesh=1, FileName=FILE,
>>>    LagrangianArrays=[], CellArrays=['k', 'nut', 'omega', 'p', 'U'],
>>>    LagrangianpositionsareinOF13binaryformat=0, PointArrays=[],
>>>    Readzones=0, Adddimensionalunitstoarraynames=0,
>>>    ListtimestepsaccordingtocontrolDict=0 )
>>>
>>>    This works so fine well, but as soon as I set it to a different path
>>>    like:
>>>
>>>
>>>  FILE="/home/gcae504/HOME/scr/ceplx049/scr2/gcae504/Dissertation/3D_Nielsen/OpenFoam/01_SAS_SSTF_URANS/01__56T_SST_HRV0/Hrv.foam"
>>>
>>>    I get this error message:
>>>
>>>
>>>    [ceplx049] 01__56T_SST_1.7 > pvpython plot.py
>>>    vtkPOpenFOAMReader : [ ...........]
>>>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>      File "plot.py", line 186, in <module>
>>>        DataRepresentation1.ScalarOpacityUnitDistance =
>>> 0.33228207747036353
>>>      File
>>>
>>>  "/home/gcae504/Desktop/ParaView-3.10.1-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.10/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
>>>    line 207, in __setattr__
>>>    "to add this attribute.")
>>>    AttributeError: Attribute ScalarOpacityUnitDistance does not exist.
>>>    This class does not allow addition of new attributes to avoid
>>>    mistakes due to typos. Use add_attribute() if you really want to add
>>>    this attribute.
>>>
>>>    I get the 'same' error message with a script which executes the
>>>    python state file and resets the FileName (the FileName is set using
>>>    sys.argv), when I do not define the complete path....
>>>
>>>    Does anyone know, what I am doing wrong!?
>>>
>>>    Best Regards!
>>>    Fabian
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