[Paraview] [vtkusers] gcode2vtk animation example

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi Cory,

--- On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Cory Quammen
<cory.quammen at kitware.comwrote:
| - Run ParaView and load your VTK file
| - Click on Superman_export.gcode.vtk
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After this step, I had to click "Apply".

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| In the window that pops up, set the value in the
| first row to 0 and the value in the second row 23.341
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This is the last entry in the .vtk file, I guess.

I was able to view the simulation!

#2 My second question is whether we can do this rendering in
real-time? Can I feed in values as expected for the animation? Is
there an example from here that I can re-use?

  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Python

If you can point me to any relevant documentation on on how to go
about experimenting with this, I would be happy to read tutorials on
the same.

#3 Is there an IRC channel for discussions on paraview or vtk?

Thanks for your prompt replies.

Appreciate it!

SK

=== Reference ===

Hi Shakthi,

I'm moving this over to the ParaView users mailing list because it is
more ParaView-related than VTK-related. Here's how to reproduce the
video:

- Run ParaView and load your VTK file
- Click on Superman_export.gcode.vtk
- Select Filters -> Threshold. In the Scalars combo box, pick the
"build_time" variable. Click Apply.
- Open the Animation view (View -> Animation View)
- In the Animation View, look for the "Threshold1" combo box. PIck the
"Threshold Range (1)" value in the combo box to the right.
- Now click the + sign on the left side.
- In the entry named "Threshold1 - Threshold Range (1)" that is now in
the table (under the column "Time"), double-click on the icon that
looks a little bit like dumbells. In the window that pops up, set the
value in the first row to 0 and the value in the second row 23.341....
Click OK
- No change the "No. Frames:" setting to 1000.
- Play the animation by clicking the play button in the animation controls.

You should see the motion of the printer head play out in front of
you. You can save this animation to a video via the File -> Save
Animation menu item.

HTH,
Cory

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