[Paraview] VTU vs. Exodus: "play" through list of files

[Gregory Sjaardema]

On 11/16/10 12:46 PM, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>> In exodus format, one generally writes all the steps (state1, state2, ...)
>> in the same file.
> Right; I'll try that later. Moving mesh sequences might also be
> represented in one file only I believe.
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> It's still a bit confusing as to *what ParaView displays when there's
> only one state per file.
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> --Nico
It is possible to have a sequence of exodus files that each have 1 or 
more states in them; as an example, the Sierra codes will output files 
with names similar to "box.e, box.e-s0002, ..., box.e-s0006" In 
paraview, I can open the file "box.e" and it automatically opens all 
files in the series and shows me the combined state times from each file.

--Greg
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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Weirs, V Gregory<vgweirs at sandia.gov>  wrote:
>> In exodus format, one generally writes all the steps (state1, state2, ...)
>> in the same file. This relies on the mesh topology being the same for the
>> entire set of steps.
>>
>> Greg
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>> On 11/16/10 12:31 PM, "Nico Schlömer"<nico.schloemer at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I've had a bunch of VTU files (say, state1.vtu, state2.vtu,
>> state2.vtu,...) and using ParaView, it is very easy to display them in
>> a movie style, being able to "play", "pause", click through the frames
>> and so on.
>> I then recently switched to the Exodus format, the information in the
>> files remains exactly the same (say, state1.exo, state2.exo,
>> state2.exo,...). When opening each file individually, one is presented
>> with a slightly altered menu as opposed to VTU files (--makes
>> sense--), but it does not seem to be possible to "play" the sequence
>> of the files. ParaView would always iterate over "time" from 0 to 1 in
>> in steps of 1/9, instead of iterating over the files.
>>
>> -- Is that something that cane be fixed, or am I ideally expected to
>> present the data to ParaView in a different way?
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>> Cheers,
>> Nico
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