Classroom Tutorials

Classroom Tutorials contain beginning, advanced, Python and batch, and targeted tutorial lessons on how to use ParaView, created by Sandia National Laboratories. These tutorials were created by W. Alan Scott and are presented as a 3-hour class internally within Sandia National Laboratories.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.

• 1. Beginning: ParaView
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. A simple example
• 2. Beginning: Sources & Filters
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Annotate Time Source
  • 2.3. Text Source
  • 2.4. Ruler Source
  • 2.5. Clip filter
  • 2.6. Slice filter
  • 2.7. Glyph filter
  • 2.8. Threshold filter
  • 2.9. Contour filter
  • 2.10. Clip to Scalar filter
  • 2.11. Cell to Point/ Point to Cell filters
  • 2.12. Stream Tracer
  • 2.13. Calculator filter
  • 2.14. Favorites
  • 2.15. Customize Shortcuts
• 3. Beginning: GUI
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Customize Settings
  • 3.3. Information tab
  • 3.4. Right click menu based commands
  • 3.5. Split windows
  • 3.6. Move/control windows
  • 3.7. Unlink windows
  • 3.8. Control the center
  • 3.9. Auto apply
  • 3.10. Properties tab
  • 3.11. Advanced Properties tab
  • 3.12. Copy/Paste/reset/Save parameters
  • 3.13. Move the camera
  • 3.14. Matplotlib characters
  • 3.15. Axes Grid
  • 3.16. Lighting - Specular
  • 3.17. Slice View and Layouts
  • 3.18. Render View (Comparison)
  • 3.19. Customize Shortcuts
• 4. Beginning: Color Maps & Palettes
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Color palette
  • 4.3. Color Map Editor
  • 4.4. Custom Color Maps
  • 4.5. Opacity mapping
• 5. Beginning: Plotting
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Plot along a line
  • 5.3. Plot point over time
  • 5.4. Plot two variables at same time
  • 5.5. Plot multiple points (statistics plot version)
  • 5.6. Plot multiple points (spaghetti plot version)
  • 5.7. Plot min, max and average for all points of a block over time
  • 5.8. Plot data
• 6. Beginning: Pictures & Movies
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Save Screenshot
  • 6.3. Save Animation (make a movie)
• 7. Advanced: MultiBlock
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Block commands onscreen menu
  • 7.3. Don’t load some blocks
  • 7.4. Load the same dataset twice
  • 7.5. Extract Block and Extract Selection
  • 7.6. MultiBlock inspector
• 8. Advanced: Data Analysis
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Find Data Panel
  • 8.3. Cell, Point and Block Selections in Render View
  • 8.4. Spreadsheet and histogram view
  • 8.5. Advanced Spreadsheets
  • 8.6. Extract Selection
  • 8.7. Spreadsheet data by time
• 9. Advanced: Time Management
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. The Time Manager View
  • 9.3. Temporal Interpolator
  • 9.4. Move the camera
  • 9.5. Animating a Filter
  • 9.6. Data Animation
  • 9.7. Warp Vector Filter
• 10. Advanced: State Management
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Save State / Load State
  • 10.3. Save Data
  • 10.4. Export Scene
  • 10.5. Traces
• 11. Advanced: Tips & Tricks
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Creating a Custom Filter
  • 11.3. Temporal Statistics Filter
  • 11.4. Creating vectors from 2 or 3 scalars
  • 11.5. Mesh quality
  • 11.6. Backface styling
  • 11.7. Animating a static vector field
• 12. Python & Batch: ParaView & Python
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Overview
  • 12.3. A simple Python toy example within ParaView
  • 12.4. A simple Python example reading a datafile and writing a screenshot
  • 12.5. Scale Around Dataset Center - A userful example
  • 12.6. Trace Recorder
  • 12.7. Running Scripts
  • 12.8. Macros
  • 12.9. Python Help
• 13. Python & Batch: Python Calculator, Programmable Source & Filter
  • 13.1. Introduction
  • 13.2. Python Calculator
  • 13.3. Programmable Filter
• 14. Python & Batch: pvpython and pvbatch
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. pvpython
  • 14.3. pvbatch
• 15. Targeted: ParaView & CTH
  • 15.1. Introduction
  • 15.2. ParaView’s CTH reader
  • 15.3. Creating contours with the Extract CTH Parts filter
  • 15.4. Creating a filled isovolume with the Clip by Scalar filter
  • 15.5. Analyzing fragments with the Material Interface filter
  • 15.6. Showing cell data
  • 15.7. Plot over line
  • 15.8. Calculating density
• 16. Targeted: Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • 16.1. Introduction
  • 16.2. Slices
  • 16.3. Stream Tracers - lines and tubes
  • 16.4. Stream Tracers with Custom Source
  • 16.5. Glyphs perpendicular to a slice
  • 16.6. Flow in a fluid
  • 16.7. 2D plots through a fluid
  • 16.8. Contours on a slice
  • 16.9. Gradient, Divergence, Vorticity and Q Criterion
  • 16.10. Probing a fluid
  • 16.11. Animating a static vector field
  • 16.12. Volume Rendering
• 17. Targeted: Particle Simulations
  • 17.1. Introduction
  • 17.2. Displaying particles
  • 17.3. Glyphing particles
  • 17.4. Thresholding particles
  • 17.5. Scatter Plot
  • 17.6. Example data file
• 18. Targeted: Trame
  • 18.1. Introduction
  • 18.2. Running a trame application