[Paraview] Load many VTK from different folders at once

[Lorenzo]

Sorry David, what do you mean with "record a trace"?


Il giorno 23/mar/2012, alle ore 19:03, David E DeMarle ha scritto:

> 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
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> 
> 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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