[Paraview] PV3: Animation from legacy VTK timewise files

[Jason Hoogland]

> Until now you couldn't. We just implemented this. I will post more
> information soon.
> 
> -berk

Hi Berk,

Awesome.

Is this feature in pre-3 versions?

Can you suggest an eta on this?  I have an urgent need to animate
transient motion of glyphs from each time step, pv3 is more fun to work in.

hoogs

> 
> 
> On 8/20/07, Jason Hoogland <jdhoogland at wbmpl.com.au> wrote:
> > This is probably really simple but I can't figure it out.  Suppose I
> have
> > a directory filled with time solutions (from OpenFOAM), e.g.:
> >
> > MyRun_1.vtk
> > MyRun_2.vtk
> > MyRun_3.vtk
> > ...
> > MyRun_100.vtk
> >
> > How to I get PV to recognise this as a time sequence?  In the "Open
> File"
> > dialog the list of files is folded under an entry:
> >
> > MyRun_..vtk
> >
> > but when I open this rather than a particular file such as
> MyRun_2.vtk, it
> > loads just the single, first MyRun_1.vtk and doesn't seem to
> recognise the
> > sequence.  What should I do?  In PV2.6 I wrote a translator for some
> other
> > cfd software that uses the VTK XML format and created a single XML
> > collection list, which allowed time sequences to be recognised.  I
> thought
> > there must be an existing method, however.
> >
> > hoogs
> >
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