[Paraview] Animating a sequence of exodus files

[Moreland, Kenneth]

David,

You are using the exodus format in a way that it was not really
intended, and its confusing ParaView.  The exodus format has the concept
of time built into it, and ParaView uses that mechanism to support time.
In addition, it is common for a large parallel simulation to dump out
multiple files, each with a spatial partition of the data.  Thus,
ParaView will assume that your multiple files partition space and not
time.  It will read in the geometry of all the files at once.

Your best bet is to either combine the files into a single using exodus'
built concept of time or to convert the files into a different format.

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-
> bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On Behalf Of David Neckels
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:20 PM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] Animating a sequence of exodus files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a sequence of exodus files, each of which has a single time
step
> of a mesh in a different refinement state.
> I wish to view these files as an animation, so I have named them:
> file_000.g
> file_001.g
> file_002.g
> etc...
> 
> I was hoping that I could load the first file into paraview and that
> animation would be automatic.  This was the way paraview works with
.vtk
> files, anyhow:
> file_000.vtk
> file_001.vtk, etc...
> 
> Do I have to make sure the time step variable in the exodus files has
a
> certain sequence, or something like this??
> 
> -David N.
> 
> --
> David Neckels, PhD
> NCAR, Boulder CO
> (303) 497-1209
> 
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