[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Basic Time Plot Questions

[Scott, W Alan]

D,
First off, I would update ParaView.  You are using a very old version.

* I believe this functionality does not exist in 3.6.2.  It does in 3.14.0.  However, you should be able to open one file, then open the next file, etc.
* No clue.  Maybe open can.exo, save data as a csv file, and look at that?

Alan


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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of D
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 9:02 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Basic Time Plot Questions

Hi ParaViewers,

I'm new to ParaView and am having trouble figuring out these two things. (I'm using version 3.6.2)

First question:

The documentation talks about being able to select multiple files by holding down command and selecting the files. Or using shift, as one would most file dialogs. I've had no luck with this using ParaView via VNC on a Mac (Chicken of the VNC) and also on a Linux box via X. If I can't figure out how to do this, I'm going to have to put all my data in one file, which may be a nightmare.

Second question:

I suppose this question may be irrelevant if I can get the first one answered, since I think the file-naming will take care of the time steps (?). At any rate, I'm wondering if ParaView can make an animation of data in a CSV which is set up like this:

timestep, x-coord, y-coord, z-coord, intensity

The z-coord is always zero since I'm doing a 2d problem. I can plot the points using the Table to Points filter, but I can't figure out how to get ParaView to recognize the timestep column as the timestep.

Any assistance on either of these questions would be most appreciated. Thanks,

--Danny
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