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SaveNexusGeometry v1¶

Summary ¶

Save the instrument from a workspace to a Nexus-format HDF file. WARNING: shapes are NOT saved in the present version (1.0).

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
InputWorkspace	Input	MatrixWorkspace	Mandatory	Workspace containing the Instrument.
Filename	Input	string		Full path to save destination file
EntryName	Input	string	entry	(optional) Name of the H5 root group in which the Instrument is to be saved. Default name: ‘entry’.

Saves the Instrument geometry from the workspace to a Nexus file. Saves detector positions and rotations. Current version (1.0) does NOT save instrument shapes of instrument components. file is compliant to Nexus standards. For more information on the Nexus format, see https://www.nexusformat.org/

the Instrument will be extracted from the specified workspace, and written to the specified location.

The (optional) H5 root group name is the parent NXentry group in which the Instrument and sample data are stored. If no name is given, the root group will have a default name of ‘entry’

Usage ¶

Example - basic example using SaveNexusGeometry, with default H5 root group

import os

ws = CreateSampleWorkspace()
file_name  = "example_save_nexus_geometry.nxs"
path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), file_name)

SaveNexusGeometry(ws, path)
print(os.path.isfile(path))