[Paraview] Re: Question on file format

[Dominik Szczerba]

in VTK format yes, not sure about Ensight.

Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> That would force me to store the mesh in each file too wouldn't it?
> thanks
> 
> Dominik Szczerba escribió:
> 
>> If you store your time steps with systematically increasing suffixes
>> (.01.vtk 02.vtk etc) PV will recognize them and allow you to chose the
>> time step with a slider. VTK formats do not offer other possibilities.
>> You may want to look into the Ensight format which supports time step
>> data natively.
>> Dominik
>>
>> Alberto Fernandez wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm writing a parse for a CFD program that we use. The idea is
>>> converting the results file to Paraview. I have been successful creating
>>> a parallel file for the unstructured grid and the file with the grid. I
>>> other words, I can put my geometry in Paraview. What I would like to do
>>> is to create a results file for each time step. This files should not
>>> have the information about the mesh since it does not change, just the
>>> results. Is this possible at all? If it is, please can you direct me a
>>> little into how to do it. I have tried adding pieces to the parallel
>>> file but then I get error saying that I do not have points. If what I
>>> want is not possible, what strategy would you recomend, putting
>>> everything in the same file?
>>> Thank you a lot for your time.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
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