[Paraview] PV3: Animation from legacy VTK timewise files

[Berk Geveci]

Until now you couldn't. We just implemented this. I will post more
information soon.

-berk


On 8/20/07, Jason Hoogland <jdhoogland at wbmpl.com.au> wrote:
> This is probably really simple but I can't figure it out.  Suppose I have
> a directory filled with time solutions (from OpenFOAM), e.g.:
>
> MyRun_1.vtk
> MyRun_2.vtk
> MyRun_3.vtk
> ...
> MyRun_100.vtk
>
> How to I get PV to recognise this as a time sequence?  In the "Open File"
> dialog the list of files is folded under an entry:
>
> MyRun_..vtk
>
> but when I open this rather than a particular file such as MyRun_2.vtk, it
> loads just the single, first MyRun_1.vtk and doesn't seem to recognise the
> sequence.  What should I do?  In PV2.6 I wrote a translator for some other
> cfd software that uses the VTK XML format and created a single XML
> collection list, which allowed time sequences to be recognised.  I thought
> there must be an existing method, however.
>
> hoogs
>
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