<div dir="ltr">Hi Giordano,<div><br></div><div>You can use a .pvd file to assign time values to different files in the way you want. Please see</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats#PVD_File_Format">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats#PVD_File_Format</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Cory</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Giordano Lipari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giordano_lipari@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">giordano_lipari@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all! I am reposting this after several days since I fear that the<br>
first take was swamped in a dense digest. Hope this is OK.<br>
<br>
I work with Paraview 4.3.1. I use an existing state file (*.pvsm) as a<br>
template to create a new animation (with four panels combined).<br>
<br>
The names of the legacy vtk files that I am loading as frames, are<br>
tailed by a progressive file counter (such as *.0001.vtk, *.0002.vtk and<br>
so forth). At this stage I am not able/inclined to change this situation.<br>
<br>
The time annotation in the animation shows the 0-based file counter,<br>
whereas I would like to show the time values out of a given sequence.<br>
<br>
I then thought that editing the property field "TimestepValues" in the<br>
state file from<br>
<Property name="TimestepValues" id="4553.TimestepValues"<br>
number_of_elements="6"><br>
<Element index="0" value="0"/><br>
<Element index="1" value="1"/><br>
<Element index="2" value="2"/><br>
<Element index="3" value="3"/><br>
<Element index="4" value="4"/><br>
<Element index="5" value="5"/><br>
</Property><br>
into, for example,<br>
<Property name="TimestepValues" id="4555.TimestepValues"<br>
number_of_elements="6"><br>
<Element index="0" value="0"/><br>
<Element index="1" value="0.6"/><br>
<Element index="2" value="1.25"/><br>
<Element index="3" value="1.85"/><br>
<Element index="4" value="2.5"/><br>
<Element index="5" value="3.1"/><br>
</Property><br>
would have worked well. (I repeat this for all occurrences of<br>
TimestepValues owing to the four-panel arrangement.)<br>
<br>
However, this is not sufficient. The new values are ignored and even<br>
overwritten when I save the modified state file.<br>
<br>
--1--<br>
Is there any other feature in the pvsm file that I should tweak to make<br>
this substitution effective?<br>
--2--<br>
Or is this idea ill-fated from the outset?<br>
--3--<br>
If 2==true is the case, is there any recommended way such that the time<br>
annotation marks a user-defined sequence of values?<br>
<br>
Thanks for thinking along and helping me out with tips and wisdom.<br>
<br>
Giordano<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cory Quammen<br>R&D Engineer<br>Kitware, Inc.</div>
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