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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Paul,<BR>
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If you are trying to get ParaView to use a “simple” reader that only knows how to read a single file to read in a sequence of files as a time series, you can leverage the file-series meta reader. This Wiki page gives information on how to do that.<BR>
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Note that the Wiki page talks of “restarts” which in your case you can think of a time step. I originally wrote this document to address a time series caused by a simulation crashing and being restarted, but the same technique works fine for a simple time series of files.<BR>
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-Ken<BR>
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On 3/17/10 2:53 PM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <<a href="utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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Utkarsh<BR>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Paul Edwards <<a href="paul.m.edwards@gmail.com">paul.m.edwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
> Hi,<BR>
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> Is there something I need to do to my reader in order to load in<BR>
> multiple files that I can animate with? I have put numbers in the<BR>
> file names and loaded up file.*.dat but stepping the time doesn't work<BR>
> (and it doesn't show timesteps in the information tab in the object<BR>
> inspector).<BR>
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> Thanks,<BR>
> Paul<BR>
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