[Paraview] ParaView newbie with a (hopefully) simple question

[Amelia Launspach]

Would there be anyway to automatically group together all the sources
without looping?

Something like

group = GroupDatasets(Input= GetSources())

even though I know GetSources() won't work, but something similar to call
all the data at the same time?

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Shawn Waldon <shawn.waldon at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Amy,
>
> I think a Python scripting approach is probably the best solution then.
>
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> Shawn
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Amelia Launspach <amylaunspach at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It does already have a time dimension which I eventually was going to
>> change from 'VTK Color Block' to 'time' after I had grouped all of the data
>> together. So until then, I am trying to think of a solution to
>> automatically group all the data together upon loading..
>>
>> Thank you for your input! This is my first time using the mailing list
>> and I am pleasantly surprised by how quick people respond :)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Shawn Waldon <shawn.waldon at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Amy,
>>>
>>> The easiest way would probably be this:
>>>
>>> ParaView should automatically recognize the sequence of numbered files
>>> and give you an option to load "mbdout_r000102_s000001_e..vtm" in the
>>> file dialog.  This will load the data as a time series with one data file
>>> per step.  Then you can apply the "Group Time Steps" filter which reads all
>>> the time steps into a multiblock dataset (the equivalent of running Group
>>> Dataset on them).  Of course if your dataset has a time dimension too, you
>>> will have trouble reading that since you are already using time for
>>> something else...
>>>
>>> I see Ufuk has replied since I started typing this and his python
>>> scripting approach may be superior if your dataset has time steps already.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Shawn
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Amelia Launspach <amylaunspach at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I was assigned a small project on ParaView and I need help getting
>>>> started.
>>>>
>>>> I need to find a way to loop through N number of source files in the
>>>> Pipeline Browser and return the count for number N and group them together
>>>> using the group dataset filter.
>>>>
>>>> Each time I upload the data it will be a different number of files that
>>>> look something like this:
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>> Right now there are N=22 files but the N will differ each time. So I
>>>> want to create a script/or programmable filter that will loop through every
>>>> file in the pipeline browser, add it to a group dataset, and lastly print
>>>> the number N.
>>>>
>>>> How would I begin to do this? Can this be done with a simple script
>>>> that I can just copy and paste each time in the shell? Would it be easier
>>>> to build a programmable filter?
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated !
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Amy
>>>>
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