[Paraview] Can I generate a single file that contains data and filter settings?

[Samuel Key]

Wyatt--

While ParaView can read CSV files and subsequently generate images, the 
CSV format for simulation results limits the functionality available to 
you in ParaView. My suggestion is that you write your simulation results 
in a format that contains geometry information, as well as, Point and 
Cell centered values like displacement, velocity, acceleration, 
temperature, concentrations, volume fractions, /et cetera./

The attached document is a good place to start. (This document is very 
concise and very complete, but the information is only written down 
once. As a result, the format information is sometimes not located where 
you need it.)

If your simulations are concerned with the deformation of 3-D solids and 
structures, I can provide you with FORTRAN95 routines that you can use 
to write VTK-formatted simulation results.

Once you can generate VTK-formatted datum sets, The File > Save State 
command will generate *.pvsm files that will let you "recreate" a 
previously constructed Browser Pipeline. (The PV *.pvsm reader gives you 
the opportunity to select a different datum set.)

There is a small two-cell mesh file attached that might be helpful to 
you when constructing a VTK-formatted file writer in your application.

--Sam




On 1/27/2018 8:46 AM, Wyatt Spear wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Currently I am using my own application to generate a simple CSV file 
> which can be loaded up in ParaView. I then create the visualization I 
> want with a few manual filter operations.
>
> What I would like is to generate a file, preferably still with a field 
> for CSV-like raw data, that tells ParaView to load the data and then 
> apply the filters I want, so the view I want is immediately available 
> upon loading the file and the raw data is available if I want to try 
> other filters.
>
> I've taken a look at vpt and pvd files saved from my intended view but 
> I'm not seeing much correspondence between the CSV data I generate, 
> the filters I apply and the data fields in there. I'm also pondering 
> the save-state and trace/macro features of ParaView but I suspect 
> those won't quite square with my aim of generating a file in an 
> external application which includes data.
>
> Could someone point me toward a proper way to do this? If it comes 
> down to plugin development I'm willing to take a look at that.
>
> Thanks,
> Wyatt Spear
>
>
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