Hi Oliver,<br><br>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:
<br><br>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;<br>&lt;VTKFile type=&quot;Collection&quot; version=&quot;0.1&quot; byte_order=&quot;LittleEndian&quot; compressor=&quot;vtkZLibData<br>Compressor&quot;&gt;<br>&nbsp; &lt;Collection&gt;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;0&quot; file=&quot;Foo_001.vts&quot;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;1&quot; file=&quot;Foo_002.vts&quot;/&gt;<br>...<br>&nbsp; &lt;/Collection&gt;<br>&lt;/VTKFile&gt;<br><br>The value in timestep attribute is a float and should be the time value for that timestep. 
<br><br>-berk<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Oliver Gloth</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:oliver.gloth@engits.com">oliver.gloth@engits.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">













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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I have been using <span>ParaView</span>
for quite some time no to visualise CFD data. So far I have created multiple
data files to visualise transient data:</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Foo_001.vts</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Foo_002.vts</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Foo_003.vts</span></font></p>

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<p><span><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">ParaView</span></font></span><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">

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?</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Thanks for any advice,</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Oliver</span></font></p>

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