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SaveNexusESS v1¶

Summary ¶

Saves intermediate, also known as ‘processed’ nexus file with data and geometry

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
InputWorkspace	Input	Workspace	Mandatory	Name of the workspace to be saved
Filename	Input	string	Mandatory	The name of the Nexus file to write, as a full or relative path. Allowed extensions: [‘.nxs’, ‘.nx5’, ‘.xml’]
Title	Input	string		A title to describe the saved workspace
WorkspaceIndexMin	Input	number	0	Index number of first spectrum to write, only for single period data.
WorkspaceIndexMax	Input	number	Optional	Index of last spectrum to write, only for single period data.
WorkspaceIndexList	Input	int list		List of spectrum numbers to read, only for single period data.
Append	Input	boolean	False	Determines whether .nxs file needs to be over written or appended
PreserveEvents	Input	boolean	True	For EventWorkspaces, preserve the events when saving (default). If false, will save the 2D histogram version of the workspace with the current binning parameters.
CompressNexus	Input	boolean	False	For EventWorkspaces, compress the Nexus data field (default False). This will make smaller files but takes much longer.

Description ¶

Saves a processed nexus file similar to SaveNexusProcessed v1, but provides nexus geometry which is an accurate snapshot of the calibrated/transformed instrument geometry in-memory.

The algorithm writes out spectra-detector mappings and can handle detector groupings.

This algorithm may be deprecated in future in favour of a master SaveNexusProcessed v1 algorithm.

This algorithm currently does not support shape information for component geometry.

Usage ¶

Example - SaveNexusESS

from mantid.simpleapi import *
import os
import tempfile
simple_run = CreateSampleWorkspace(NumBanks=2, BankPixelWidth=10)
destination = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "sample_processed.nxs")
SaveNexusESS(Filename=destination, InputWorkspace=simple_run)
print("Created: {}".format(os.path.isfile(destination)))
os.remove(destination)