Re: [Paraview] Naming an existing data array.

2014-05-31 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Andrew, I see a couple of things in your script. First is normals and scalars are data set attributes. so you need to access them through one of those classes, ex vtkPointData. Correct me if I'm wrong but, although in VTK 6 you generally don't need to shallow copy the input to filters I

Re: [Paraview] Naming an existing data array.

2014-05-31 Thread Burlen Loring
Great! I just experimented with your plugin, I have to say that's pretty cool! On 05/31/2014 04:47 PM, Andrew Maclean wrote: Burlen, Thankyou so much for your quick response. The script works fine. I am a bit of a ParaView novice when it comes to scripting so thanks for the help! This

[Paraview] Naming an existing data array.

2014-05-30 Thread Andrew Maclean
I have a source object that produces a polydata object. Unfortunately the normals and scalars are unnamed. How do I access these and name them in ParaView. I thought something like this may work in a Programmable Filter: pdi = self.GetPolyDataInput() pdo = self.GetPolyDataOutput()