[Paraview] Plot field data over time?

[Eric E. Monson]

Sorry for the noise -- I see that can.ex2 has these variables.

Thanks,
-Eric

On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Eric E. Monson wrote:

> 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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