<div dir="ltr">Hello Mr. Burns, thank you very much for your helpful answer. I changed the XDMF file. But now I have another question. <div><br></div><div>Now I have problems with GridType="SubSet". ParaView doesn't view the second and third timestep. Their grids are referenced as SubSet from the first grid. </div><div><br></div><div>This is the reason why I am doing all this: I want ParaView change the color on a static, fixed, large geometry as quickly as if I switched the surface coloring variable in the Active Variables Controls dropdown, but using the time playback features. It is very inconvenient to change the "timestep" by selecting an other variable in a Color Map drop-down menu with thousands of entries. Is this even possible in ParaView?<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is my XDMF content:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><?xml version="1.0" ?></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><Xdmf></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Domain></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid CollectionType="Temporal" GridType="Collection" Name="TimeSeriesGrid"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid GridType="Uniform" Name="MainGrid"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="0"/></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Topology NumberOfElements="8" TopologyType="Triangle"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="8 3" Format="XML">2 5 1 2 6 5 2 7 6 2 3 7 8 7 3 4 8 3 1 5 4 8 4 5</DataItem></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Topology></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem Dimensions="9 3" Format="XML">-1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 .2 0 1 .2</DataItem></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Geometry></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Attribute Center="Node" Name="Values"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem Dimensions="9" Format="XML">0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1</DataItem></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Attribute></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid GridType="Subset" Name="T1" Section="All"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="Target" Reference="XML">/Xdmf/Domain/Grid/Grid[@Name="MainGrid"]</Grid></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="0.5"/></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Attribute Center="Node" Name="Values"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem Dimensions="9" Format="XML">0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8</DataItem></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Attribute></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid GridType="Subset" Name="T2" Section="All"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="Target" Reference="XML">/Xdmf/Domain/Grid/Grid[@Name="MainGrid"]</Grid></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="1"/></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Attribute Center="Node" Name="Values"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem Dimensions="9" Format="XML">8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0</DataItem></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Attribute></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Domain></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></Xdmf></span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-25 16:58 GMT+01:00 Burns, Andrew J CTR USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.j.burns35.ctr@mail.mil" target="_blank">andrew.j.burns35.ctr@mail.mil</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is because the Xdmf3 reader does not support the Hyperslab Timetype. One Time item per grid is the preferred method.<br>
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Andrew Burns<br>
Software Engineer | SAIC<br>
Phone: <a href="tel:410-306-0409" value="+14103060409">410-306-0409</a><br>
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I generated the following XDMF file and tried to open it in ParaView. When I open it, I get a dialog with three readers to choose:<br>
- XDMF reader<br>
- XDMF3 reader<br>
- XDMF3 reader (Top Level Partition)<br>
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I can open the file with "XDMF reader", but when I open it with the other two readers, ParaView (5.1.0 64-bit Mac) crashes.<br>
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Application Specific Information:<br>
terminating with uncaught exception of type XdmfError: 'Value' not in itemProperties in XdmfTime::populateItem<br>
abort() called<br>
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</span>But I generated the file according to this recommendation < Caution-<a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats#Reading_a_time_varying_Raw_file_into_Paraview" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.<wbr>org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_<wbr>formats#Reading_a_time_<wbr>varying_Raw_file_into_Paraview</a> > and according to the XDMF3 < Caution-<a href="http://www.xdmf.org/index.php/XDMF_Model_and_Format" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.xdmf.org/<wbr>index.php/XDMF_Model_and_<wbr>Format</a> > standard. When I try to open this public example < Caution-<a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats#Reading_a_time_varying_Raw_file_into_Paraview" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.<wbr>org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_<wbr>formats#Reading_a_time_<wbr>varying_Raw_file_into_Paraview</a> > with XDMF3 in ParaView, it crashes, too.<br>
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Now this is the content of my XDMF file:<br>
<br>
<br>
<?xml version="1.0" ?><br>
<br>
<Xdmf><br>
<br>
<Domain><br>
<br>
<Topology NumberOfElements="8" TopologyType="Triangle"><br>
<br>
<DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="8 3" Format="XML">2 5 1 2 6 5 2 7 6 2 3 7 8 7 3 4 8 3 1 5 4 8 4 5</DataItem><br>
<br>
</Topology><br>
<br>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"><br>
<br>
<DataItem Dimensions="9 3" Format="XML">-1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 .2 0 1 .2</DataItem><br>
<br>
</Geometry><br>
<br>
<Grid CollectionType="Temporal" GridType="Collection" Name="TimeSeriesGrid"><br>
<br>
<Time TimeType="HyperSlab"><br>
<br>
<DataItem Dimensions="3" Format="XML" NumberType="Float">0.0 1.0 2</DataItem><br>
<br>
</Time><br>
<br>
<Grid GridType="Uniform" Name="T1"><br>
<br>
<Topology Reference="/Xdmf/Domain/<wbr>Topology[1]"/><br>
<br>
<Geometry Reference="/Xdmf/Domain/<wbr>Geometry[1]"/><br>
<br>
<Attribute Center="Node" Name="Values"><br>
<br>
<DataItem Dimensions="9" Format="XML">0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8</DataItem><br>
<br>
</Attribute><br>
<br>
</Grid><br>
<br>
<Grid GridType="Uniform" Name="T2"><br>
<br>
<Topology Reference="/Xdmf/Domain/<wbr>Topology[1]"/><br>
<br>
<Geometry Reference="/Xdmf/Domain/<wbr>Geometry[1]"/><br>
<br>
<Attribute Center="Node" Name="Values"><br>
<br>
<DataItem Dimensions="9" Format="XML">8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0</DataItem><br>
<br>
</Attribute><br>
<br>
</Grid><br>
<br>
</Grid><br>
<br>
</Domain><br>
<br>
</Xdmf><br>
<br>
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