[Paraview] Re: Display of time dependent unstructured grid separating the pointdata and the grid definition?

[Berk Geveci]

It actually is (sort of :-). First of all, the vtu format supports
multiple time steps in the same file. Unfortunately, this feature is
not well documented. Mathieu is the original author, maybe he'll
remember how it works.
Second, Kent has modifications to the paraview source that allows vtu
files to share the mesh when loading pvd files. I didn't have the time
to look at his patch and incorporate it into paraview yet.

-berk

On 2/21/08, Alessandro Bellina <bellina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>  So basically the VTU format is not capable of this method?
>
>  Thanks for your reply
>
>
>  Alessandro
>
>
>  On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM, montesino
>  <Stephane.Montesino at hmg.inpg.fr> wrote:
>  > Try the Ensight Gold File format, the mesh and the data are in 2 different
>  >  files and an ascii file (.case) the name of the files and the variable
>  >
>  >  FORMAT
>  >  type: ensight gold
>  >
>  >  GEOMETRY
>  >  model:     Electrodes-channel-**********.geo
>  >
>  >  VARIABLE
>  >  scalar per element: Electric_Polarity
>  >  Electric_Polarity-Electrodes-channel-001-**********.scl
>  >
>  >  TIME
>  >  time set: 1
>  >  number of steps:     8
>  >  filename start number:         1
>  >  filename increment:   1
>  >  time values:
>  >           1.000
>  >           2.000
>  >           3.000
>  >           4.000
>  >           5.000
>  >           6.000
>  >           7.000
>  >           8.000
>  >
>  >  Stéphane Montesino
>  >
>  >
>  >  hello all,
>  >  First of all, I have been using ParaView this year for grad work and
>  >  it has really sped things up for me. Great tool!
>  >
>  >  I am trying to visualize about 200 timesteps (using pvd collection) of
>  >  a 50,000 node unstructure grid FEM.  As far I as I understand it, I
>  >  need to include in every vtu file (each timestep) both the mesh
>  >  definition (i.e. node coords, connectivity, offsets, etc) and
>  >  obviously the actual pointdata for that timestep. Now, this is taking
>  >  a little bit of time and was wondering if I could simplify this by
>  >  breaking the mesh definition and point data into two different files
>  >  somehow. I need my model to grow to millions of nodes!
>  >
>  >  Thank you,
>  >
>  >  Alessandro
>  >
>  >
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