[Paraview] step time display

[SamuelKey]

Greetings Luc,

Regarding getting a time stamp in your animation frames, I am familiar 
with three readers: pvd/vtk, EnSight, Exodus. Of theses three, only 
exodus will provide a time stamp for an animation (or snap-shoot).

I talked to the person who wrote the exodus-reader and he indicated it 
was rather complex to get the time info from the data structures within 
ParaView. I have attached a file that contains the script used by 
ParaView when processing an exodus database. You will note that it 
contains an exodus-specific function. So, I do not think it will be of 
any use except with an exodus database.

Your question is frequently asked -- I once ask it myself, and it will 
be asked again. It looks to me that your only option currently is to 
output your data using the exodus format: 
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=exodusii

It is not easy to write an exodus formatted file, but the exodus reader 
is in ParaView is quite good.

Regards,

Sam Key

Bordier, Luc wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I’m quite a new user of paraview and I’m using it as a fluent 
> post-processor.
>
> I’m loading transient data and doing animations of it. I would like to 
> have the text information of the time value appearing next to my model 
> representation during the animation.
>
> I’ve understood that I can use some brackets [] to enter paraview vtk 
> commands in the annotation panel but I don’t know what is the command 
> to write to have the time value to be displayed in the viewport window.
>
> Please can somebody tell me how to do it?
>
> Thank you
>
> Luc
>
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