This user community has been most helpful. You have helped me learn how to drive ParaView. I now have a Python program that I can run using pvPython to integrate the density along a line segment in a CFD solution.
I need to accomplish this from MATLAB. I am thinking of doing this by calling VTK from MATLAB. I notice that the binary distribution of VTK does not have any DLL's prebuilt, but ParaView does. It appears from looking through the ParaView source that the C++ source has been built into a DLL that can be called from an external program. Basically, for this application, I do not need the ability to view data, just process it. I have a few questions: 1) Is my understanding correct that the vtk DLL's in the ParaView bin folder can be called directly from an external program? 2) Are these DLL's built from the C++ source files in the VTK folder under the ParaView folder? (I need to know this because it may become necessary to rebuild this set for other operating systems.) 3) Does this mean that I don't really need to use CMake to call ParaView/VTK from a top-level program? 4) If my understanding is correct, is this documented anywhere? I have The ParaView Guide, The VTK User's Guide, and The Visualization Toolkit: An Object- Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics. The only thing I have seen mentioned is the client/server sections in The ParaView User's Guide. Actually, this might even be what I need. Thanks for your help, Hamilton Woods _______________________________________________ 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 Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview