[Paraview] Plotting transient data

[John C. Young]

Thanks, that looks promising.

John

On 5/7/2010 11:12 AM, Felipe Bordeu Weldt wrote:
> Yes, you can use the xdmf format file, and use the XPath,
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> "XPath, allows for elements in the XML document and the API to reference
> specific elements in a document"
> http://www.xdmf.org/index.php/XDMF_Model_and_Format
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> then if your data is realy big, you can use the hdf5 format inside your Xdmf to
> store the information in binary/compress .
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> in the example only the topology and geometry of the first timestep is written.
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> Felipe
> Le 6 mai 10 à 22:17, John C. Young a écrit :
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>>  Hi,
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>>  I am trying to plot some transient data on an unstructed mesh using paraview.
>>  I've found the thread here that advises writing each time-step to a separate file.
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>>  http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2007-June/005161.html
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>>  This works. My problem is that (if I am understanding correctly), each file
>>  has to have the full mesh representation as well as the particular time-step
>>  data. For small meshes this is not a problem, but some meshes I am looking at
>>  are very large. It seems wasteful to have to re-define the mesh in each file.
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>>  Is there a way to separate the mesh data from the data sets so that I can
>>  define the mesh only once in one file and only have the data sets in the list
>>  of time-step files?
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>>  Thanks,
>>  John
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