[Paraview] Keeping Only Clips

[Ganesh Vijayakumar]

I've done something similar in the past. I just write it out to a different
dataset and read it in again. Do File -> Save Data. It can even save all
data in the time series as individual datasets.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:05 PM, D H <mrhyde at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some VTK files (legacy VTK format, unstructured grid) that I'm
> rendering in Paraview.  For each file, I load the file into Paraview, then
> do a scalar clip of that data.  I render only the clip for each file.
>
> The thing is that doing this for a large number of files uses up a lot of
> memory.  Each LegacyVTKReader uses about 30MB of RAM, and each clip uses
> only about 0.15MB of RAM.  If I just kept the Clips in memory and could
> discard each LegacyVTKReader as soon as I made the corresponding clip,
> there's clearly a lot of memory that could be saved.
>
> This may be a silly question, but is there any way to "separate" a Clip
> from its parent data set?  Like, can I just make the Clip its own (3D)
> geometric object, and forget about the fact that it originally came from a
> VTK file?  Maybe this is impossible, but I thought I would ask in case
> there is some way to achieve what I'm thinking of and save a great deal of
> memory.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> David
>
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ganesh
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