[Paraview] reading multiple files

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Paul,

If you are trying to get ParaView to use a "simple" reader that only knows how to read a single file to read in a sequence of files as a time series, you can leverage the file-series meta reader.  This Wiki page gives information on how to do that.

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Restarted_Simulation_Readers#Customized_Restart_Reader

Note that the Wiki page talks of "restarts" which in your case you can think of a time step.  I originally wrote this document to address a time series caused by a simulation crashing and being restarted, but the same technique works fine for a simple time series of files.

-Ken


On 3/17/10 2:53 PM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

Does your reader expose a "TimestepValues" information property?

Utkarsh

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there something I need to do to my reader in order to load in
> multiple files that I can animate with?  I have put numbers in the
> file names and loaded up file.*.dat but stepping the time doesn't work
> (and it doesn't show timesteps in the information tab in the object
> inspector).
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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