[Paraview] Plot field data over time?

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Utkarsh,

Thanks for the clarification. Do you know if there are any data sets with this type of global field data in the VTK or ParaView data samples so I could see what that looks like?

Thanks,
-Eric


On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> Eric,
> 
> If I remember correctly, this filter is designed to work with
> ExodusIIReader alone. Exodus puts what it calls "Global Variables" in
> the FieldData, and this filter is generating a plot for that. It
> shouldn't be too hard to create a "Plot FieldData Over Time" filter
> modeled on vtkExtractArraysOverTime.
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to understand the Plot Global Variables Over Time filter. I have an unstructured grid with multiple time steps I'm reading in to ParaView from a temporal collection in an Xdmf file. With each time step I have a "Grid centered" value that's getting read in properly as Field Data.
>> 
>> It sounded from the (?) button help file that Plot Global Variables Over Time should allow me to plot this Field Data over time, but when I run it I only get Time and vtkValidPointMask in the resulting Row Data.
>> 
>> Am I misunderstanding the use/point of this filter?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Eric
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric E Monson
>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>> 
>> 
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