# loading and applying a PVCC with pvpython

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-and-applying-a-pvcc-with-pvpython/2167
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-and-applying-a-pvcc-with-pvpython/2167 "2019-07-04T11:18:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![romangrothausmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/romangrothausmann/32/1021_2.png) [@romangrothausmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/romangrothausmann)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-and-applying-a-pvcc-with-pvpython/2167/1 "2019-07-04T11:18:22Z")

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Hi!

What is the current way to load and apply a PVCC with pvpython?  
I found:  
[https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/paraview/205684-scripting-trace-cameraview.html](https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/paraview/205684-scripting-trace-cameraview.html)  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17673](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17673)  
[https://www.paraview.org/Bug/print\_bug\_page.php?bug\_id=11222](https://www.paraview.org/Bug/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=11222)  
Is there a less verbose way to achieve this than the script from [https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/paraview/205684-scripting-trace-cameraview.html#post712100](https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/paraview/205684-scripting-trace-cameraview.html#post712100)?  
It would be nice to have something like `LoadCamSettings` (like `LoadState`, `LoadPlugin`). This would allow to take screen-shots of the a PVSM from different cam positions, which I would like to add as an option to e.g. [https://github.com/romangrothausmann/ParaView\_scripts/blob/a05d7347c8e39ed453e287de6ce4dfee7ca9eaeb/render-view.py](https://github.com/romangrothausmann/ParaView_scripts/blob/a05d7347c8e39ed453e287de6ce4dfee7ca9eaeb/render-view.py)

Many thanks for any help or hints.  
Roman

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### Author: ![romangrothausmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/romangrothausmann/32/1021_2.png) [@romangrothausmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/romangrothausmann)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-and-applying-a-pvcc-with-pvpython/2167/2 "2019-07-04T12:12:16Z")

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While the code from [https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/paraview/205684-scripting-trace-cameraview.html#post712100](https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/paraview/205684-scripting-trace-cameraview.html#post712100) works fine ([https://github.com/romangrothausmann/ParaView\_scripts/blob/75392d42fe42dab54208cd1aa2175db1dec619f5/render-view.py#L11-L85](https://github.com/romangrothausmann/ParaView_scripts/blob/75392d42fe42dab54208cd1aa2175db1dec619f5/render-view.py#L11-L85)), it would be nice to have such a function from the PV-API, especially if some things change in future.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-and-applying-a-pvcc-with-pvpython/2167/3 "2019-07-05T08:51:19Z")

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Indeed, not supported through a simple method yet. You could open an issue on our gitlab.

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### Author: ![romangrothausmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/romangrothausmann/32/1021_2.png) [@romangrothausmann](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/romangrothausmann)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-and-applying-a-pvcc-with-pvpython/2167/4 "2019-07-05T14:20:56Z")

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Thanks @mwestphal for your feedback. Issue opened:  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/19160](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/19160)