[Paraview] Plot field data over time?

Eric E. Monson emonson at cs.duke.edu
Tue Jul 13 10:09:41 EDT 2010


Hey Utkarsh,

Thanks for the clarification. Do you know if there are any data sets with this type of global field data in the VTK or ParaView data samples so I could see what that looks like?

Thanks,
-Eric


On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> Eric,
> 
> If I remember correctly, this filter is designed to work with
> ExodusIIReader alone. Exodus puts what it calls "Global Variables" in
> the FieldData, and this filter is generating a plot for that. It
> shouldn't be too hard to create a "Plot FieldData Over Time" filter
> modeled on vtkExtractArraysOverTime.
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to understand the Plot Global Variables Over Time filter. I have an unstructured grid with multiple time steps I'm reading in to ParaView from a temporal collection in an Xdmf file. With each time step I have a "Grid centered" value that's getting read in properly as Field Data.
>> 
>> It sounded from the (?) button help file that Plot Global Variables Over Time should allow me to plot this Field Data over time, but when I run it I only get Time and vtkValidPointMask in the resulting Row Data.
>> 
>> Am I misunderstanding the use/point of this filter?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Eric
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric E Monson
>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>> 
>> 
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