[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] displaying simulation time rather than time step

[David E DeMarle]

Strike that last comment about Annotate Time doing the right thing. There
are probably file formats that make the date/time string available, but I
can't name one off the top of my head and you will still need to hook up
the connection to the Text Source something like above.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:53 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> I think that Sean is on the right track and suggest that a Python
> Animation cue is the way to go.
>
> Attached is a state file to demonstrate. Load the state file in ParaView,
> open Views->Animation View and double click on the existing Python track to
> see the script that gets the pipeline time and feeds it into a text source
> for display. I've left the parts about reading the file and mapping the
> Animation time into the corresponding simulation time as an exercise to the
> reader.
>
> Note: many time varying file formats produce the data time for you so this
> translation is unnecessary and the Annotate Time filter will do what you
> want it to.
>
>
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Phil Amburn <phil.amburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>>
>>
>> Can we talk?  I’m not smart enough to understand your suggestion (hate it
>> when that happens).
>>
>>
>>
>> If I get something worked out, even a hack, I’ll post the solution back
>> to this list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *
>> Sean.Ziegeler at engilitycorp.com
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 3:41 PM
>> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] displaying simulation time rather
>> than time step
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Phil,
>> You *might* be able to hack it with a combination of a Programmable
>> Filter and a Python Annotation Filter.  Use the Programmable Filter to add
>> a FieldData value to each time step that is a string with the appropriate
>> date.  Then use the Python Annotation Filter to display the date as an
>> annotation.
>>
>> The first part is the hard one.  The Programmable Filter could either (1)
>> read the file once to get all the dates, or (2) compute the dates using the
>> starting date, the time step value, and Python's datetime module.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sean
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* ParaView [paraview-bounces at paraview.org] on behalf of Scott, W
>> Alan [wascott at sandia.gov]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 5:17 PM
>> *To:* Phil Amburn; paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] displaying simulation time rather
>> than time step
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>> I have no idea how to put out what you are asking for, but it is a really
>> good idea.  If you don’t get an answer, be sure to write up a bug report/
>> feature request.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org
>> <paraview-bounces at paraview.org>] *On Behalf Of *Phil Amburn
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 3:26 PM
>> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] displaying simulation time rather than
>> time step
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to do something similar to the Annotate Time filter, but
>> rather than displaying the time step number, I need to display simulation
>> date and time.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a text file with the actual simulation date and time associated
>> with each time step.  Here are the first few lines of that file
>>
>>
>>
>> Time step   Time step output, Actual time
>>
>> 0               0.00,           4/1/2013 15:00
>>
>> 1               65.83,          4/1/2013 15:01
>>
>> 2               125.88,         4/1/2013 15:02
>>
>> 3               201.00,         4/1/2013 15:03
>>
>> 4               268.65,         4/1/2013 15:04
>>
>> 5               328.83,         4/1/2013 15:05
>>
>> 6               366.46,         4/1/2013 15:06
>>
>>
>>
>> …
>>
>>
>>
>> So, rather than Time: 0 at the bottom of the 3D window, I’d like to have
>> 4/1/2013 15:00
>>
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts / recommendations on how to accomplish this task will be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil
>>
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