<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Natalie,<div><br></div><div>I stripped your .xmf file down to two time steps and generated random data in two hdf5 files, and both ParaView 3.4 and CVS recognize this as a time series on my machine.</div><div><br></div><div>When cleaning up the .xmf file (that I had copied and pasted out of my mail viewer) it seemed like there were a mixture of different indentation characters. I don't know if that could do it -- maybe the xml parser doesn't deal with it well...?</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a link to a zip file with the three files I used so you can try it on your system:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/~emonson/NatalieTest1.zip">http://www.cs.duke.edu/~emonson/NatalieTest1.zip</a></div><div><br></div><div>Talk to you later,</div><div>-Eric</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Natalie Happenhofer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">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> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></Grid><br><br><Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nataliehapp@hotmail.com">nataliehapp@hotmail.com</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] time series with Xdmf-Files<br>> CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Natalie Happenhofer<br>> <<a href="mailto:nataliehapp@hotmail.com">nataliehapp@hotmail.com</a>> 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:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>> > From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:emonson@cs.duke.edu">emonson@cs.duke.edu</a><br>> > To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nataliehapp@hotmail.com">nataliehapp@hotmail.com</a><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>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org">ParaView@paraview.org</a><br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview">http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ________________________________<br>> > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! 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