<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Natalie,<div><br></div><div>I don't know if this will be helpful (since you already have all of those XMF files), but the standard way of doing the time animation with Xdmf and ParaView is to have all of the time steps in one XMF file as a "temporal collection". Each time step in the file could refer to a separate HDF5 file for its data. There are ways of enabling animation for a series of files using a time-unaware reader in ParaView, but I think it would be easier to write a script to combine all of your XMF files together into the time-aware format that is supported by Xdmf.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll put an example below.</div><div>-Eric</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------<br>Eric E Monson<br>Duke Visualization Technology Group</div><div><br></div><div>==================</div><div><div><Xdmf></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Domain Name="MSI"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="CellTime" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal"></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="0.00" /></div><div><span 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font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi!<br>I have a lot of Xdmf - Files which I would like to animate as a video in paraview. For every Time Step I have a separate .xmf -File and a corresponding .h5 file. Does anyone know how to do that?<br><br>thx a lot,<br>NH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><hr>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/" target="_new">MSN Messenger</a>_______________________________________________<br>ParaView mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org">ParaView@paraview.org</a><br><a href="http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview">http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>