Thanks, I'll take a look at this. My use case is pretty severely underutilizing ParaView's capabilities though. I'm rendering very large multi-variable heat maps. So color mapped 2d points are all I need rendered, (until I can figure out how to map glyph height to another variable).
=Wyatt On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 8:52 AM Samuel Key <samuel...@bresnan.net> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to > subscribe/unsubscribe:https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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