[Paraview] reading multiple files

[Paul Edwards]

Thanks for the link Ken - exactly what I needed :)

On 24 March 2010 20:10, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> 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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