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Well, Paraview does not recognize my data as a Time Series. Here is the .xmf file:<br><br><?xml version="1.0" ?><br><!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []><br><Xdmf><br><Domain><br><Grid Name="TimeSeries" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal"><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"><br> <Time Value="0.00" /><br> <Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br> </Topology><br> <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br> <DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br> c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00211.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br> </DataItem><br> </Geometry><br> <br> <Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br> <DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br> c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00211.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br> </DataItem><br> </Attribute><br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"> <br><Time Value="0.01" /><br><Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br></Topology><br><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br><DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00212.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br></DataItem><br></Geometry><br><br><br><Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br><DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00212.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br></DataItem><br></Attribute><br> <br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"> <br><Time Value="0.02"/><br><Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br></Topology><br><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br><DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00213.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br></DataItem><br></Geometry><br><br><br><Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br><DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00213.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br></DataItem><br></Attribute><br><br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"><br><Time Value="0.03"/><br><Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br></Topology><br><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br><DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00214.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br></DataItem><br></Geometry><br><br><br><Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br><DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00214.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br></DataItem><br></Attribute><br><br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"><br><Time Value="0.04"/><br><Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br></Topology><br><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br><DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00215.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br></DataItem><br></Geometry><br><br><br><Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br><DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00215.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br></DataItem><br></Attribute><br><br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"><br><Time Value="0.05"/><br><Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br></Topology><br><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br><DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00216.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br></DataItem><br></Geometry><br><br><br><Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br><DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00216.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br></DataItem><br></Attribute><br><br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"><br><Time Value="0.06"/><br><Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" ><br></Topology><br><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br><DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00217.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates<br></DataItem><br></Geometry><br><br><br><Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node"><br><DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF"><br>c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00217.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc<br></DataItem><br></Attribute><br></Grid><br><br></Grid><br></Domain><br></Xdmf><br><br>if anyone sees the error.. thx.<br>NH<br><br>> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:36:32 -0500<br>> From: dave.demarle@kitware.com<br>> To: nataliehapp@hotmail.com<br>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] time series with Xdmf-Files<br>> CC: paraview@paraview.org<br>> <br>> That should be all you need to do. Check if the Information tab of the<br>> Object Inspector panel for the reader shows any time steps. If the<br>> Time section, at the bottom of the page, has no index and value pairs<br>> in it, then paraview doesn't recognize that the data is time varying.<br>> If that is the case you might want to post you xmf file to the list<br>> and perhaps someone can see what is wrong.<br>> <br>> <br>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Natalie Happenhofer<br>> <nataliehapp@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > Hi!<br>> ><br>> > This might be a stupid question.. but I have now such a .xmf file with the<br>> > temporal collection, but how do I play it? I load it into paraview, and then<br>> > I press the "play" button above, but I canīt see anything moving..<br>> ><br>> > thx,<br>> > NH<br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > CC: paraview@paraview.org<br>> > From: emonson@cs.duke.edu<br>> > To: nataliehapp@hotmail.com<br>> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] time series with Xdmf-Files<br>> > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:38:31 -0500<br>> ><br>> > Hello Natalie,<br>> > I don't know if this will be helpful (since you already have all of those<br>> > XMF files), but the standard way of doing the time animation with Xdmf and<br>> > ParaView is to have all of the time steps in one XMF file as a "temporal<br>> > collection". Each time step in the file could refer to a separate HDF5 file<br>> > for its data. There are ways of enabling animation for a series of files<br>> > using a time-unaware reader in ParaView, but I think it would be easier to<br>> > write a script to combine all of your XMF files together into the time-aware<br>> > format that is supported by Xdmf.<br>> > I'll put an example below.<br>> > -Eric<br>> > ------------------------------------------------------<br>> > Eric E Monson<br>> > Duke Visualization Technology Group<br>> > ==================<br>> > <Xdmf><br>> > <Domain Name="MSI"><br>> > <Grid Name="CellTime" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal"><br>> > <Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"><br>> > <Time Value="0.00" /><br>> > <Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="100"><br>> > </Topology><br>> > <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br>> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3" Format="HDF"><br>> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter00/cells/position<br>> > </DataItem><br>> > </Geometry><br>> > <Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="CellType"><br>> > <DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1" Format="HDF"><br>> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter00/cells/numtype<br>> > </DataItem><br>> > </Attribute><br>> > </Grid><br>> > <Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"><br>> > <Time Value="0.01" /><br>> > <Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="100"><br>> > </Topology><br>> > <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br>> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3" Format="HDF"><br>> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter01/cells/position<br>> > </DataItem><br>> > </Geometry><br>> > <Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="CellType"><br>> > <DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1" Format="HDF"><br>> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter01/cells/numtype<br>> > </DataItem><br>> > </Attribute><br>> > </Grid><br>> > <Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"><br>> > <Time Value="0.02" /><br>> > <Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="100"><br>> > </Topology><br>> > <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br>> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3" Format="HDF"><br>> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter02/cells/position<br>> > </DataItem><br>> > </Geometry><br>> > <Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="CellType"><br>> > <DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1" Format="HDF"><br>> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter02/cells/numtype<br>> > </DataItem><br>> > </Attribute><br>> > </Grid><br>> > </Grid><br>> > </Domain><br>> > </Xdmf><br>> ><br>> > On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Natalie Happenhofer wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Hi!<br>> > I have a lot of Xdmf - Files which I would like to animate as a video in<br>> > paraview. For every Time Step I have a separate .xmf -File and a<br>> > corresponding .h5 file. Does anyone know how to do that?<br>> ><br>> > thx a lot,<br>> > NH<br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN<br>> > Messenger_______________________________________________<br>> > ParaView mailing list<br>> > ParaView@paraview.org<br>> > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! 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