Salinas August 2009

Introduction

This tutorial will describe the following:

• How to start ParaView and find information and help about ParaView
• Animate modes.
• Animate time data.
• Plot data, including variable data vs time and plot over line.
• Identify user specific nodes and elements.

How to start ParaView

• Documentation
  • The ParaView web site is located at www.paraview.org.
  • ParaView can be found at http://www.paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html. This includes versions for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
  • The ParaView wiki is located here: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView.
  • The ParaView training documents that are maintained by Sandia National Laboratories are located here: http://paraview.org/Wiki/SNL_ParaView_3_Tutorials

• Start ParaView.
  • On Linux and Mac, go into the ParaView directory (that you downloaded to above) and type “paraview”.
  • On Windows XP, go to Start → All Programs → ParaView 3.x.x → and click ParaView

• Open OsShip-eig.exo.
  • In ParaView, File → Open. Go to OsShip-eng.exo, and select it. Click OK.
  • Under the Properties tab of the Object Inspector, select all Variables
  • Click Apply.