[Paraview] SWKey: Does the PV EnSight reader accept global data?

[Samuel Key]

ParaView Users,

I have noticed that ParaView 4.1.0-64 on its third tool bar has a filter 
button for "Plot Global Variables Over Time." The simulation software 
that I run has global variables total KE, total IE, et cetera.

To date, the simulation software produces EnSight 'Gold' 
binary-formatted results file sets. To get plots of global variables 
over time, I have contemplated writing code to create an additional 
EnSight results file set that has a single-vertex cell to which all of 
the global variables are assigned. Such an approach would be efficient 
to capture every-time-step results.

However, I would like to be able to put global variables in a single 
EnSight results file set if for no other reason than to make the 
management of simulation results easier.

The question is -- Does the EnSight Gold binary-formatted reader in 
Paraview accept global variables?

Maybe the first question should be -- Does the EnSight Gold format have 
a place for global variables?

Sam Key
FMA Development, LLC
1005 39th Ave NE
Great Falls, Montana 59404
USA