[Paraview] Creating time dependent data from ascii file

[Magician]

Hi Hedieh,


Usually transient sources are prepared as sequential files (ex. file0000.vtk, file0001.vtk, …).
If you want to read your data as it is, you should use Programmable filter.
But the technique is tricky and heavy to handle.

I think it’s better to split your file as X,Y,Z,V.
You can use CSV Reader bundled in ParaView.
Any texts separated by commas, whitespaces, or other separators are available.


Magician


On May 23, 2014, at 1:00, paraview-request at paraview.org wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 17:24:13 +0200
> From: Hedieh Ebrahimi <hedieh.ebrahimi at amphos21.com>
> To: "paraview at paraview.org" <paraview at paraview.org>
> Subject: [Paraview] Creating time dependent data from ascii file
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> Hi all,
> 
> I have an ascii file like this which I like to open as a time depenedent
> data in Paraview.
> I have (x,y,z) for coordinate and then I have a variable V with different
> values for different time steps.
> 
> Could anybody please tell me how I can open this data in paraview so I
> could create an animation in which I would have a mesh colored by variable
> V changing with time?
> 
> ( I have exported this ascii file as a plot from Comsol)
> 
> The file contains a big number of rows like this.
> 
> x                       y                        z
> V(timeStep=1)   V(timeStep=2)
> 3550.8       1657.7                            2.2                    5
>                         10
> 
> Thanks in Advance,