[Paraview] transient data

[Oliver Gloth]

Berk,
 
Thanks for the quick response - I assume the same would also work with *.vtu
or other VTK/xml file types.
 
Oliver
 
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From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com] 
Sent: 11 June 2007 15:04
To: Oliver Gloth
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] transient data
 
Hi Oliver,

Since you are already writing vts files, it would be very easy to load them
in ParaView 3 as a time series. All you have to do is to write a meta-file
that points to your vts files. This is an xml file with .pvd extension. It
should look like this: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"
compressor="vtkZLibData
Compressor">
  <Collection> 
    <DataSet timestep="0" file="Foo_001.vts"/>
    <DataSet timestep="1" file="Foo_002.vts"/>
...
  </Collection>
</VTKFile>

The value in timestep attribute is a float and should be the time value for
that timestep. 

-berk
On 6/11/07, Oliver Gloth <oliver.gloth at engits.com> wrote:
Hello all,
 
I have been using ParaView for quite some time no to visualise CFD data. So
far I have created multiple data files to visualise transient data:
 
Foo_001.vts
Foo_002.vts
Foo_003.vts
 
ParaView used to automatically enable the filename as a parameter for an
animation. Apparently this feature is not supported in the current release,
but will be back in the future. Is there a better way to deal with transient
data files? What would be the recommended best practice to create an
animation from a transient simulation?
 
Thanks for any advice,
Oliver
 

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