[Paraview] VTU vs. Exodus: "play" through list of files

[Nico Schlömer]

Hi all,

I've had a bunch of VTU files (say, state1.vtu, state2.vtu,
state2.vtu,...) and using ParaView, it is very easy to display them in
a movie style, being able to "play", "pause", click through the frames
and so on.
I then recently switched to the Exodus format, the information in the
files remains exactly the same (say, state1.exo, state2.exo,
state2.exo,...). When opening each file individually, one is presented
with a slightly altered menu as opposed to VTU files (--makes
sense--), but it does not seem to be possible to "play" the sequence
of the files. ParaView would always iterate over "time" from 0 to 1 in
in steps of 1/9, instead of iterating over the files.

-- Is that something that cane be fixed, or am I ideally expected to
present the data to ParaView in a different way?

Cheers,
Nico