[Paraview] loading series of unstructured grid data files

[Berk Geveci]

We may have a fix for this in 3.4. For now, you have to write a pvd
meta-file that points to your individual vtu files. I am going to
write a wiki entry about this one of these days.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Julian Cummings
<cummings at cacr.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  When I load a series of VTK poly data files named outN.vtk (where N is
>  the timestep number) into ParaView, everything works as expected.  The
>  data from the first file is displayed, and the Animation Inspector
>  automatically recognizes the file sequence.  However, this does not work
>  for a corresponding series of VTK unstructured grid data files fN.vtu.
>  Although the files are displayed as a series in the Open File dialog
>  box, only the first dataset is loaded and the Animation Inspector does
>  not recognize the file sequence.  I tried renaming the files using
>  the .vtk extension instead of .vtu but that does not help.  Is there any
>  way to get ParaView to properly recognize a series of VTK unstructured
>  grid data files?  I want to avoid having to load each data file manually
>  because I have a lot of them.
>
>  Thanks, Julian C.
>
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