[Paraview] Re: RES: one global structure

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Renato,

thanks I will take a look at it.

Best Regards!
Fabian

* Renato schrieb am 26 Apr 2005:

> 
> Hello Fabian,
>  
> I think you must consider the use of Ensight's case format. I've have been
> using this file format to posprocess the results of my CFD program (three
> dimensional incompressible fluid flow) in Paraview and Ensight. I'm sure
> that this format support multiple time steps for one or multiple geometry
> data. 
> 
> I've provided an example of case's file for multiple time steps below:
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> FORMAT
> type:	ensight
> 
> GEOMETRY
> model:	         cav51_2.geo
> 
> VARIABLE
> 
> scalar per node:           pressure      cav51_2_pres_0***.scl
> vector per node:           velocity      cav51_2_vel_0***.vec
> 
> TIME            
> time set: 1     
> number of steps:   5
> filename start number: 0
> filename increment: 1   
> time values: 
>  0.00
>  1.00
>  2.00
>  3.00
>  4.00
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> Where: cav51_2_pres_0***.scl and cav51_2_vel_0***.vec are the names of my
> result files (several files) and cav51_2.geo is my geometry file (only one).
> Note the wildcard for the result files and the definition of the time steps.
> 
> For a short example of Ensight's geometry and result file (ASCII) you may
> look into the files provided with the Paraview distribution (directory
> \ParaView 2.0\Data\Data). If you are interested in Fortran routines to write
> geometry (for tetrahedral elements) and scalar and vectorial result files in
> binary format I could send my routines to you.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Renato
> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias
> 
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] Em
> nome de Fabian Braennstroem
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 26 de abril de 2005 14:44
> Para: Paraview List
> Assunto: [Paraview] one global structure
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a rectilinear mesh for my problem and want to write out a lot of time
> steps in different files. This should be no problem to do; I think using
> 'Collection' I can collect them again; like this example I found:
> 
> 
>   <VTKFile type="Collection">
>   <Collection>
>   <DataSet part="0" file="a_field-part0-{timestepnumber}.vtr"/>
>   <DataSet part="1" file="a_field-part1-{timestepnumber}.vtr"/>
>   ...
>   ...
> 
>   </Collection>
>   </VTKFile>
> 
> My problem is now, that I have to write the structure and mesh data for
> every time step in every file which will produce a lot of bytes. Is there a
> way to define the grid and structure of all data-files global in one file,
> so that the data-files just have data in binary format inside?
> 
> Thanks and Greetings!
> Fabian
> 
> 
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