How to modify hyperview visualization

RdelCuvillo
RdelCuvillo Altair Community Member
edited June 4 in Community Q&A

When I open HyperView and plot a contour, the legend is presented by default. It is possible to customize and save the legend. Afterwards, when you open a new file, you can load the previous TCL legend file.

Is it possible to modify the default parameters to always have the same format when you open a file? Specifically, can the TCL legend file be applied automatically without the need to manually load it each time?

 

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  • Varun Venkateswaran
    Varun Venkateswaran
    Altair Employee
    edited May 30

    You could add a statement like this

    *DefaultPostContourLegendFile("<file_path>/custom_legend.tcl")

    in <install_directory>\hwdesktop\hw\prefinc\preferences_post.mvw

     

  • RdelCuvillo
    RdelCuvillo Altair Community Member
    edited May 31
    Varun Venkateswaran said:

    You could add a statement like this

    *DefaultPostContourLegendFile("<file_path>/custom_legend.tcl")

    in <install_directory>\hwdesktop\hw\prefinc\preferences_post.mvw

     

    Dear Varun, 

     

    Thank you for the answer. However, I tried what you proposed addapting to my path and file name, but the default legend has not changed. 

    Indeed, I found this row and changed the path and file name.     DefaultPostContourLegendFile("c:/tmp/clegend.tcl")

     

    Is there any other option? for example, running this command in the start-in directory. If I run it once it has oppened, it works fine. 

    hwc result scalar legend import "<file_path>/custom_legend.tcl"

     

    Thank you in advance. 

  • Varun Venkateswaran
    Varun Venkateswaran
    Altair Employee
    edited June 1

    The preference statement needs a * in front of it to become active, as shown in my example above. 

    *DefaultPostContourLegendFile("<file_path>/custom_legend.tcl")

    Could you please make sure you have added it?

  • RdelCuvillo
    RdelCuvillo Altair Community Member
    edited June 4
    Varun Venkateswaran said:

    The preference statement needs a * in front of it to become active, as shown in my example above. 

    *DefaultPostContourLegendFile("<file_path>/custom_legend.tcl")

    Could you please make sure you have added it?

    Dear Varun, 

    You were right, and I was missing the *. This is because the original file does not have it.

    It works well. Thank you very much!

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