[vtkusers] Extract block from Multi-block data by name?

[Evan Kao]

Great, thanks a lot.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
wrote:

> In Python, you can do this:
>
> iter = mb.NewIterator()
>
> while not iter.IsDoneWithTraversal():
>     print iter.GetCurrentMetaData().Get(vtk.vtkCompositeDataSet.NAME())
>     iter.GoToNextItem()
>
>
> The C++ code is almost identical. The name is stored in the MetaData of
> each block with the vtkCompositeDataSet::NAME() key.
>
> Best,
> -berk
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Evan Kao <tossin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to get the name of a block when iterating (with
>> ExtractBlock I assume)?  It wasn't clear to me in the documentation what
>> method or sequence of methods I could use to get the name of the data
>> itself.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Evan Kao
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There is still no specific method. You have to iterate over the blocks
>>> and do a linear search.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -berk
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Evan Kao <tossin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello vtkusers,
>>>>
>>>> I want to extract a block from a Multi-block dataset (read in using the
>>>> Ensight reader) using the block's name, but I had trouble finding such a
>>>> method in the documentation.  I found this thread
>>>> <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2011-March/020435.html>
>>>> about the same topic (but in Paraview), which suggested there was no method
>>>> at the time, but since it's from 3-4 years ago, I was wondering if
>>>> something in vtk had been written by now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Evan Kao
>>>>
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