Post Processing Shortcut Extension

Bijan_Niakan
Bijan_Niakan
Altair Employee
edited June 2024 in Altair Exchange

Overview

This extension will allow users to map post-processing plot preferences and options to a button or series of buttons on a toolbar within HyperView to instantly reapply onto subsequent models.

Usage/Installation Instructions

Generating Commands for Plot Preferences

1. Load a result model into HyperView and open up the HWC Console via the View dropdown

2. Apply each of your plot preferences/options

3. Go back to the HWC console, select the commands corresponding to the plot preferences/options of interest, right click and select "Copy to Tcl"

Defining Extension

4. Download and unzip the attached PostProcessingShortcut.zip

5. Open the test_plot.tcl file in a text editor and past the commands under the relevant procedure

6. Add additional actions in the toolbar.xml file to add more button for more plot preferences/options

7. In HyperView, select File - Extensions - Add Extension, and call to the unzipped PostProcessingShortcut folder

8. Hit the radio button on the added extension in HyperView to activate the toolbar extension

9. You should now see a button for each action defined in the toolbar.xml file on the left side of your HyperView GUI

Reapplying Plot Preferences/Options on Subsequent Models

10. Load a new results model into HyperView

11. Select the button on the extension toolbar that corresponds to the plot preferences/options that you want to display.

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