[Paraview] How to export .x3d files from python script?

Thu Oct 31 02:36:08 EDT 2013

All the Proxy/Python informations are stored in the XML files under
src/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/SMApplication/Resources/*

That's the way I do it... ;-)

Seb

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Rich,
>
> Maybe the active view is not the one that has your rendering.
> You may need to call SetView(RenderView2).
>
> Seb
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>
>>  Arrgh!
>> I tried the following and the resulting file did not contain my
>> isosurface as created by the below script.  What am I doing wrong here?
>>  Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness posts here…
>>
>>  >>> exporters=servermanager.createModule("exporters")
>>
>>  >>> x3dExporter=exporters.X3DExporter(FileName="test.x3d")
>> >>> view = GetActiveView()
>>
>>  >>> x3dExporter.SetView(view) # <===== NEW LINE
>>
>>  >>> x3dExporter.Write()
>>
>>
>>  On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:14 PM, "Cook, Rich" <cook47 at llnl.gov>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>  … and immediately got the answer from google:
>> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2012-May/024921.html
>>
>>  However, I'm still curious as to how the person in question discovered
>> how to do it.  Where is all the good python documentation/lore stored?  The
>> wiki wasn't too helpful to me in that respect, i.e., as a reference,
>> although it has a lot of good ideas/information.
>>
>>  -- Rich
>>
>>  On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Cook, Rich" <cook47 at llnl.gov>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>  I recorded a script to try to understand how to export a time series of
>> an isosurface as .x3d files so I can muck with them using blender.  But
>> when I look at the script, the crucial bit of exporting the .x3d did not
>> get captured.  Is that part not scriptable?  How can I go about finding out
>> for myself which file formats can be exported from python scripts, if any?
>> Thanks
>>
>>  Here is the script that got captured:
>>
>>  try: paraview.simple
>> except: from paraview.simple import *
>> paraview.simple._DisableFirstRenderCameraReset()
>>
>>  plot_raw = VisItMirandaReader(
>> FileName='/nfs/tmp2/rcook/miranda/IRM_512_r1/plot.raw' )
>>
>>  AnimationScene2 = GetAnimationScene()
>> AnimationScene1 = GetAnimationScene()
>> plot_raw.CellArrays = []
>> plot_raw.Materials = []
>> plot_raw.Meshes = ['mesh']
>> plot_raw.PointArrays = []
>>
>>  AnimationScene2.EndTime = 110.0
>> AnimationScene2.PlayMode = 'Snap To TimeSteps'
>>
>>  AnimationScene1.EndTime = 110.0
>> AnimationScene1.PlayMode = 'Snap To TimeSteps'
>>
>>  RenderView2 = GetRenderView()
>> DataRepresentation4 = Show()
>> DataRepresentation4.Representation = 'Outline'
>> DataRepresentation4.ScaleFactor = 51.200000000000003
>> DataRepresentation4.EdgeColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.50000762951094835]
>> DataRepresentation4.SelectionCellFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>>
>>  plot_raw.CellArrays = ['density']
>>
>>  CellDatatoPointData2 = CellDatatoPointData()
>>
>>  RenderView2.CameraFocalPoint = [255.5, 255.5, -0.5]
>> RenderView2.CameraClippingRange = [829.67380753909174, 2829.4767488865327]
>> RenderView2.CameraPosition = [-979.92119013571846, 1113.4340644820502,
>> -820.67547187352602]
>>
>>  DataRepresentation5 = Show()
>> DataRepresentation5.EdgeColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.50000762951094835]
>> DataRepresentation5.SelectionPointFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>> DataRepresentation5.SelectionCellFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>> DataRepresentation5.Representation = 'Outline'
>> DataRepresentation5.ScaleFactor = 51.200000000000003
>>
>>  DataRepresentation4.Visibility = 0
>>
>>  Contour2 = Contour( PointMergeMethod="Uniform Binning" )
>>
>>  Contour2.PointMergeMethod = "Uniform Binning"
>> Contour2.ContourBy = ['POINTS', 'density']
>> Contour2.Isosurfaces = [2.0]
>>
>>  DataRepresentation6 = Show()
>> DataRepresentation6.ScaleFactor = 51.200000000000003
>> DataRepresentation6.EdgeColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.50000762951094835]
>> DataRepresentation6.SelectionPointFieldDataArrayName = 'Normals'
>> DataRepresentation6.SelectionCellFieldDataArrayName = 'density'
>>
>>  AnimationScene2.AnimationTime = 10.0
>>
>>  RenderView2.CameraViewUp = [-0.80853642549145055, -0.58010037415785698,
>> 0.098754263479722132]
>> RenderView2.CacheKey = 10.0
>> RenderView2.CameraPosition = [402.40688029765732, -227.93136313665994,
>> -1637.4840153022406]
>> RenderView2.CameraClippingRange = [1504.1196765479444, 1981.483268233957]
>> RenderView2.ViewTime = 10.0
>> RenderView2.RemoteRenderThreshold = 2.0
>> RenderView2.UseCache = 0
>> RenderView2.CameraFocalPoint = [255.5, 255.49999999999989,
>> -0.49999999999999883]
>>
>>  Render()
>>
>>  --
>> ✐Richard Cook
>> ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557
>> 7000 East Avenue,  Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
>> ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605
>> ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961
>> ---
>> Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div.,
>> Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.
>> (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>> ✐Richard Cook
>> ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557
>> 7000 East Avenue,  Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
>> ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605
>> ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961
>> ---
>> Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div.,
>> Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.
>> (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>> ✐Richard Cook
>> ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557
>> 7000 East Avenue,  Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
>> ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605
>> ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961
>> ---
>> Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div.,
>> Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.
>> (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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