[General] command line parameters:paraview

iafxl · January 23, 2015, 13:41

I am devesetsloping a GUI in Visual Basic to input values to a friends CFD program. His programs process the data from my GUI and produces sets of
Mesh equation which he has been manually importing to Paraview with great results. I would like to automate this last step.
I am able to successfully import one of the two sets as a data file from the DOS command line, but I do not see any way to import the second set except manually from within Paraview.
I am working with windows 7 and use a batch file to accomplish the task.
While I know that I have NOT written any environmental path equations, for the moment, I have all of the necessary files in the paraview 3.12.0/bin directory.
The Dos .bat files looks like this:

cd C:\program files (x86)\paraview 3.12.0\bin
paraview.exe --data="C:\A\Post\SHPout..vtk"

This effectively starts paraview and loads the one set of the desired files.
Any attempt on my part to add the second set of datafiles to the command line meets with failure due to my ignorance of command line options.
The second set of files that I would like to import are:
"C:\A\Post\FEMout..stl"

I am new to Paraview, but I am not the one who will be analysing the data.
I did try to import the 2 sets of files and set some of the pipeline parameters using a macro [quite successfully] from inside paraview;and I also saved the Macro as a .py script file. Unfortunately, I do not YET know how to program or use the python scripting code... I am willing to learn, if that is the only way to accomplish the results.

The question is: How can I get both sets of files (which will consist of sets of 10 to 60 or more files each) into Paraview from the command line?
thank you
Iafxl

iafxl · January 24, 2015, 09:57

I created a .py script from within Paraview to load 2 sets of multiple files and set up some initial conditions. and stored this file the Windows 7 directory where the paraview bin files exist.
When I invoke paraview from the DOS window from the bin directory with the following:
Paraview.exe --script="start2.py" [the name of the script file], paraview loads but gives me this error message:
QFSFileEngine:

pen: No file name specified
Error opening ""
What am I doing wrong... the file is right there in the calling directory and the script file appears to be correct.
Any help would be most appreciated

January 23, 2015, 13:41	command line parameters:paraview	#1
iafxl New Member Ian Fraser Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I am devesetsloping a GUI in Visual Basic to input values to a friends CFD program. His programs process the data from my GUI and produces sets of Mesh equation which he has been manually importing to Paraview with great results. I would like to automate this last step. I am able to successfully import one of the two sets as a data file from the DOS command line, but I do not see any way to import the second set except manually from within Paraview. I am working with windows 7 and use a batch file to accomplish the task. While I know that I have NOT written any environmental path equations, for the moment, I have all of the necessary files in the paraview 3.12.0/bin directory. The Dos .bat files looks like this: cd C:\program files (x86)\paraview 3.12.0\bin paraview.exe --data="C:\A\Post\SHPout..vtk" This effectively starts paraview and loads the one set of the desired files. Any attempt on my part to add the second set of datafiles to the command line meets with failure due to my ignorance of command line options. The second set of files that I would like to import are: "C:\A\Post\FEMout..stl" I am new to Paraview, but I am not the one who will be analysing the data. I did try to import the 2 sets of files and set some of the pipeline parameters using a macro [quite successfully] from inside paraview;and I also saved the Macro as a .py script file. Unfortunately, I do not YET know how to program or use the python scripting code... I am willing to learn, if that is the only way to accomplish the results. The question is: How can I get both sets of files (which will consist of sets of 10 to 60 or more files each) into Paraview from the command line? thank you Iafxl

January 24, 2015, 09:57	py script from command line	#2
iafxl New Member Ian Fraser Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I created a .py script from within Paraview to load 2 sets of multiple files and set up some initial conditions. and stored this file the Windows 7 directory where the paraview bin files exist. When I invoke paraview from the DOS window from the bin directory with the following: Paraview.exe --script="start2.py" [the name of the script file], paraview loads but gives me this error message: QFSFileEngine:pen: No file name specified Error opening "" What am I doing wrong... the file is right there in the calling directory and the script file appears to be correct. Any help would be most appreciated