Saving and restoring ParaView postprocessing

kriz · June 11, 2010, 06:52

Hi!

After making lots of slices, glyph's and stream-traces for visualisation within ParaView, I am asking myself, is there a possiblity to save all this postprocessing work and to load it thereafter?

"Save data" and "Save state" does not seem to do this?

Zymon · June 11, 2010, 09:39

Yeah, good question. I had the same problem, but couldn't find a solution too. When I save a screenshot or an animation paraView crashs most often (I don't know why). So it is quite annoying when I want to take another screenshot and have to set all the slices and glyphes again.

madad2005 · June 11, 2010, 10:13

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Originally Posted by kriz

Hi!

After making lots of slices, glyph's and stream-traces for visualisation within ParaView, I am asking myself, is there a possiblity to save all this postprocessing work and to load it thereafter?

"Save data" and "Save state" does not seem to do this?

Go to Tools->Python Shell. There should be a tab called 'trace' which will record everything you do as a Python macro, which you can then run at a later date to replicate everything you did previously. Save state should do something similar as well and I'm not sure why you are having issues with it.

idrama · June 12, 2010, 06:59

Hallo madad2005,

I did what you have wirtten, but all what I get is:
Python Shell is not Available

What do I do?

kriz · June 13, 2010, 07:46

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Originally Posted by madad2005

Save state should do something similar as well and I'm not sure why you are having issues with it.

Thanks for the hints!

idrama · June 13, 2010, 08:28

Hello madad2005,

I have managed it to get the python shell; I re-compiled paraview. Unfortunately, I have no access to trace; its does not appear. What can I do?

madad2005 · June 14, 2010, 04:38

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Originally Posted by idrama

Hello madad2005,

I have managed it to get the python shell; I re-compiled paraview. Unfortunately, I have no access to trace; its does not appear. What can I do?

If your version of ParaView is 3.6.1 or older, then you won't have access to trace. It was only included from 3.6.2 onwards. Personally, I suggest you download the latest ParaView 3.8.0. Not only does this have access to trace functionality, but it also includes Takuya et al.'s OpenFOAM reader (I believe). If you don't want to have to do this, then double-check Save/Load State to make sure it works for you again.

June 11, 2010, 06:52	Saving and restoring ParaView postprocessing	#1
kriz New Member Christoph Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 16	Hi! After making lots of slices, glyph's and stream-traces for visualisation within ParaView, I am asking myself, is there a possiblity to save all this postprocessing work and to load it thereafter? "Save data" and "Save state" does not seem to do this? Last edited by kriz; June 11, 2010 at 07:31.

June 11, 2010, 09:39		#2
Zymon Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 42 Rep Power: 16	Yeah, good question. I had the same problem, but couldn't find a solution too. When I save a screenshot or an animation paraView crashs most often (I don't know why). So it is quite annoying when I want to take another screenshot and have to set all the slices and glyphes again.

June 12, 2010, 06:59		#4
idrama Senior Member Claus Meister Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Wiesbaden, Germany Posts: 241 Rep Power: 18	Hallo madad2005, I did what you have wirtten, but all what I get is: Python Shell is not Available What do I do?

June 13, 2010, 08:28		#6
idrama Senior Member Claus Meister Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Wiesbaden, Germany Posts: 241 Rep Power: 18	Hello madad2005, I have managed it to get the python shell; I re-compiled paraview. Unfortunately, I have no access to trace; its does not appear. What can I do?