[Paraview] Customize time values displayed in time annotation [take 2]

[Cory Quammen]

Hi Giordano,

You can use a .pvd file to assign time values to different files in the way
you want. Please see

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats#PVD_File_Format

HTH,
Cory

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Giordano Lipari <
giordano_lipari at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all! I am reposting this after several days since I fear that the
> first take was swamped in a dense digest. Hope this is OK.
>
> I work with Paraview 4.3.1. I use an existing state file (*.pvsm) as a
> template to create a new animation (with four panels combined).
>
> The names of the legacy vtk files that I am loading as frames, are
> tailed by a progressive file counter (such as *.0001.vtk, *.0002.vtk and
> so forth). At this stage I am not able/inclined to change this situation.
>
> The time annotation in the animation shows the 0-based file counter,
> whereas I would like to show the time values out of a given sequence.
>
> I then thought that editing the property field "TimestepValues" in the
> state file from
>       <Property name="TimestepValues" id="4553.TimestepValues"
> number_of_elements="6">
>         <Element index="0" value="0"/>
>         <Element index="1" value="1"/>
>         <Element index="2" value="2"/>
>         <Element index="3" value="3"/>
>         <Element index="4" value="4"/>
>         <Element index="5" value="5"/>
>       </Property>
> into, for example,
>       <Property name="TimestepValues" id="4555.TimestepValues"
> number_of_elements="6">
>         <Element index="0" value="0"/>
>         <Element index="1" value="0.6"/>
>         <Element index="2" value="1.25"/>
>         <Element index="3" value="1.85"/>
>         <Element index="4" value="2.5"/>
>         <Element index="5" value="3.1"/>
>       </Property>
> would have worked well. (I repeat this for all occurrences of
> TimestepValues owing to the four-panel arrangement.)
>
> However, this is not sufficient. The new values are ignored and even
> overwritten when I save the modified state file.
>
> --1--
> Is there any other feature in the pvsm file that I should tweak to make
> this substitution effective?
> --2--
> Or is this idea ill-fated from the outset?
> --3--
> If 2==true is the case, is there any recommended way such that the time
> annotation marks a user-defined sequence of values?
>
> Thanks for thinking along and helping me out with tips and wisdom.
>
> Giordano
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Cory Quammen
R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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