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<div>If you have the same number of points in each time step, you could use the Exodus II format. The documentation is here (<a href="https://cubit.sandia.gov/public/documentation/MailingList/cubit/04/att-0110/exodusII.pdf">https://cubit.sandia.gov/public/documentation/MailingList/cubit/04/att-0110/exodusII.pdf</a>)
and you can download the source to the library here (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/exodusii/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/exodusii/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Rohit Narurkar <<a href="mailto:rohitnarurkar@gmail.com">rohitnarurkar@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:28 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Kenneth Moreland <<a href="mailto:kmorel@sandia.gov">kmorel@sandia.gov</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] XYZ format in PV<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So then what is the best format to use while handling time-varying data in ParaView? I currently use .csv files, but there is a separate file for each time step (so might go to about a million files for that many number of time steps).
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<div>Thanking you,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <span dir="ltr">
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<div>It looks like the XYZ format could use a little love in ParaView. There are two XYZ readers in ParaView, and they both seem to have problems.</div>
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<div>The first reader is labeled a "XYZ Files" and is actually one of the readers of the VisIt bridge. It works OK except that it does not handle time.</div>
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<div>The second reader is labeled "XMol Molecule Files". That uses the vtkXYZMolReader class in VTK. The reader as many more features including time support (in a really outdated way), but there appears to be a bug that is causing it to crash all the time: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14203" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14203</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Rohit Narurkar <<a href="mailto:rohitnarurkar@gmail.com" target="_blank">rohitnarurkar@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:43 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[EXTERNAL] [Paraview] XYZ format in PV<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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<div>I'm trying to import my time varying particle position data from an XYZ file format. In my file, instead of radius of particles, I mention what kind of particle it is (lets say C, H or O).</div>
<div>Now I would like to associate different radii with the different particle symbols. How do I do it in ParaView?</div>
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<div>Next, if I have a time varying data, (file attached along), then why is ParaView not able to understand that there are multiple time steps? I am using a standard XYZ file format.</div>
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<div>Thanks a lot,</div>
<div>Rohit.</div>
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