[Paraview] Export X3D Files via Python >version 3.8

[shpatric at vt.edu]

Hi,
I too have this issue. I did find that View and Write attributes of  
X3DExporter were removed from the  
ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Resources/utilities.xml but removing  
View does work but does not write the file.

The updated python script looks like:

from paraview.simple import *
exporters=servermanager.createModule("exporters")
source=Cone()
view = GetActiveView()
Show(view)
render=Render()
x3dExporter=exporters.X3DExporter(FileName="foo.x3d")
x3dExporter.Write()

If source, view, or render are added to the x3dexporter constructor such as

x3dExporter=exporters.X3DExporter(source,FileName="foo.x3d")

I get recursive errors:
Exception exceptions.RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded'  
in <bound method X3DExporter.__del__ of  
<paraview.servermanager.X3DExporter object at 0x2b8e69567f10>> ignored


Hopefully this bug is fixed soon or someone with knowledge can provide  
the correct way to use it.

Thanks,
Pat


Quoting Andrea Beck <beck at iag.uni-stuttgart.de>:

> Hey folks,
> I'm looking for a way to export X3D files with a python script for  
> Paraview version 3.14.
> In v 3.8, what worked was:
>
> from paraview.simple import *
> exporters=servermanager.createModule("exporters")
> Cone()
> Show()
> SetActiveView(GetRenderView())
> Render()
> x3dExporter=exporters.X3DExporter(View=view,  
> FileName="/home/iagbeck/demo/foo.x3d")
> x3dExporter.Write()
>
> but that won't work in any version > 3.8 (see also bug tracker  
> report here: http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=12738).  
> <http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=12738>
>
> Is there anyone who knows how to do that? Alternatively, if you have  
> some code snippets about exporting / importing files (tecplot bins)  
> lying around, please let me know!
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Andrea
> <http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=12738>
>