[Paraview] Load many VTK from different folders at once

[David E DeMarle]

You can also record either a trace or a state file in paraview where
you load a couple of files, then edit that recorded file in a text
editor and add in the additional files. Of the two, the trace file,
being a python script, is easier to edit and programmatically extend.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Lorenzo <lovecraft22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Frank;
> I know about this, I just would like to find a way to load everything as a vtk as well…
>
>
> Il giorno 23/mar/2012, alle ore 17:47, Albina, Frank ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Lorenzo!
>>
>> Maybe you'd better off with reading the OpenFOAM solution with the built-in OpenFOAM reader. Just create in your case directory an empty OF.foam file and you can start reading the solution by opening this file from the GUI.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Frank.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo
>> Sent: Freitag, 23. März 2012 17:11
>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Load many VTK from different folders at once
>>
>> I was thinking: maybe there's a way to create a text files (or something in another format) which contains the paths to the vtk files I need to open and this file could be submitted to paraview to automate the whole process of opening every each one of the vtk files...
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> Il giorno 22/mar/2012, alle ore 20:26, lore ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am using openFoam and when I run foamToVTK I get many vtk files every each
>>> one of which is contained in a different folder. If my geometry is made up by
>>> many .stl different files then I get the same number of folders. This is quite
>>> annoying when I need to load up the whole geometry because I need to enter
>>> the first folder and load the first .vtk, then go to file-->open-->enter the
>>> second folder and load the second .vtk and so on until I loaded all the files I
>>> need. As you may understand this is quite time consuming... Any way to do the
>>> whole process at once?
>>>
>>> I think the best way would be to link together all of these vtk files into one
>>> single file (even of a different format) using a script (sh, python, bash...??).
>>>
>>> This is something you may do with the .stl files, if they are in binary format
>>> you may concatenate the content of each one of them into a single different
>>> file and then load just that one to have everything at once...
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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