[Paraview] Save data in ensight format using pvpython fails

[Cory Quammen]

Jonas,

Can you try calling

mergBlocks1.UpdatePipeline()

prior to SaveData() and see if that solves the problem?

Thanks,
Cory

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Jonas Lantz <jonas.lantz at liu.se> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have trouble saving data in ensight format using python on windows 7 and
> Paraview 4.3.1 and 5.0.0 64-bit. This is a simplified version of what I am
> doing:  start a trace in the Paraview GUI, load ensight file, merge blocks,
> file > save data as ensight, stop trace.  When doing this in the GUI it
> works as intended, and data is saved in ensight format. However, when I try
> to use pvpython and the python file from the trace, I get "No BlockId was
> found" a couple of thousand times in the output when it is trying to save.
> The files are created but the file size is zero bytes. My input data is a
> multi-block dataset on an unstructured grid.
>
>
>
> So the strange thing is that everything works when saving through the GUI,
> but not when using pvpython and the trace from the GUI… Any idea on how to
> proceed?.
>
>
>
> A simplified version of my trace is as follows:
>
> from paraview.simple import *
>
> paraview.simple._DisableFirstRenderCameraReset()
>
> # create a new 'EnSight Reader'
>
> casefilecase = EnSightReader(CaseFileName='path to ensight case file')
>
> casefilecase.PointArrays = ['Velocity']
>
> # create a new 'Merge Blocks'
>
> mergeBlocks1 = MergeBlocks(Input=casefilecase)
>
> # save data
>
> SaveData('path to save ensight file', proxy=mergeBlocks1)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Cory Quammen
R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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