<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Dan,<div> You can just use a real value for the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">timestep.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Here is a sniped of one of my pvd files. "part" can be used to specify multiple parts of a mesh for a given time step.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">For instance I use this to write out data from separate processes in a given time step in a mpi job.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><div><?xml version="1.0"?></div><div><VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"></div><div><Collection></div><div><DataSet timestep="296.8545" group="" part="0" file="rns157_Natfreq_slc01_Vtp_nid0000_fld0122.vtu"/></div><div><DataSet timestep="300.1596" group="" part="0" file="rns157_Natfreq_slc01_Vtp_nid0000_fld0123.vtu"/></div><div><DataSet timestep="303.7438" group="" part="0" file="rns157_Natfreq_slc01_Vtp_nid0000_fld0124.vtu"/></div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div><div><DataSet timestep="11114.6504" group="" part="0" file="rnj157_Natfreq_slc01_XVpt_nid0000_fld1866.vtu"/></div><div></Collection></div><div></VTKFile></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div></div></span></font><div><div>On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:26 AM, <a href="mailto:daniel.lenski@seagate.com">daniel.lenski@seagate.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi all,</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I am using Paraview to visualize large time-series of data from materials simulations. I've used the file-formats.pdf documentation to convert our simulator's file format to ParaView's .VTU unstructured grid format, which has been very successful.</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I'm having trouble finding information on the PVD file format used to make time-series. It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere. All I have is a few ad-hoc snippets of the file format to go off of:</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><VTKFile type="Collection"></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <Collection></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <DataSet timestep="0000" file="combined.0001.vtu"/></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <DataSet timestep="0001" file="combined.0002.vtu"/></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <DataSet timestep="0002" file="combined.0003.vtu"/></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <DataSet timestep="0003" file="combined.0004.vtu"/></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <DataSet timestep="0004" file="combined.0005.vtu"/></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <DataSet timestep="0005" file="combined.0006.vtu"/></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> ...</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> ...</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> </Collection></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"></VTKFile></font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Is there any documentation available on this file format? What I'm most interested in is doing non-unit timesteps so that I can produce an animation with Paraview with a timescale proportional to the real time-scale of the simulation.</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks for any advice!</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dan</font>_______________________________________________<br>ParaView mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org">ParaView@paraview.org</a><br>http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>