[Paraview] timestepping

[SamuelKey]

Thomas--

Yes and Yes. Try either an EnSight binary-formatted or an Exodus-II
format results file.

(A ParaView *.pvd XML/ASCII-formatted "mother file" is not all that bad 
though.)

--Sam Key

Thomas Geenen wrote:
> dear paraview users,
> 
> I would like to be able to store multiple time steps in a single
> vtk_xml file (no problem) and process them with paraview.
> Storing multiple time steps is supported in the vtk xml format however
> when opening such a file paraview tells me that there is only a single
> timestep. googling for some usefull comments resulted in some
> unsettling info. It seems that this is indeed not supported in
> paraview and that i will have to use the paraview format. however
> however this file type is more or less a list of vtk xml files (if I
> understood correctly). Does that mean that if i want to use any vtk
> based storage method i will have to store each time step in a separate
> file? and does this also mean that i will have to store the mesh info
> for each time step? We work with a fixed mesh and i am looking at
> storing hundreds of timestep.
> 
> thanks
> Thomas
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