[Paraview] Visualization of time course data with legacy vtk format

[James Thunes]

Cory,

Thanks for taking a look. Your files did indeed load as expected.

It appears I was a bit hasty in my prior email. The naming scheme I use is
actually fileXXXX_stress.vtk with X the step number. The "_stress" denotes
that I'm visualizing the stress (I sometimes output different data that
doesn't really make sense within a single output file).

Looking at the wiki, this is not, technically speaking, a valid naming
convention for animation of legacy vtk files. In my defense though, it does
work on versions of paraview prior to 5.4.

It appears that the logic for detecting series data is now more strict,
breaking my workflow. I'm guessing that fixing the naming convention to fit
within the accepted patterns is the best solution.

James

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> James,
>
> I just tested this on ParaView 5.4.1 and could not reproduce it. My
> file series is:
>
> Sphere0001.vtk
> Sphere0002.vtk
> Sphere0003.vtk
>
> Could you try loading these files, which are attached in a .zip file?
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 2:04 PM, James Thunes <j.thunes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Sometime between v5.1 and the latest version (v.5.4.1) the handling of
> > legacy vtk files changed.
> >
> > I use paraview to visualize FE data that I've written in the legacy vtk
> > format. Data is written with a separate file for each time step. The
> naming
> > convention is: FileXXXX.vtk with XXXX the step number.
> >
> > When I click the open dialog with the latest version, I no longer see the
> > files grouped as a file series (as described in this page from the wiki:
> > Animating legacy VTK file series).
> >
> > Is this new behavior expected, and if so, is there an alternative way to
> > visualize time series data?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
> >
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