Strike that last comment about Annotate Time doing the right thing. There are probably file formats that make the date/time string available, but I can't name one off the top of my head and you will still need to hook up the connection to the Text Source something like above.
David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:53 PM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that Sean is on the right track and suggest that a Python > Animation cue is the way to go. > > Attached is a state file to demonstrate. Load the state file in ParaView, > open Views->Animation View and double click on the existing Python track to > see the script that gets the pipeline time and feeds it into a text source > for display. I've left the parts about reading the file and mapping the > Animation time into the corresponding simulation time as an exercise to the > reader. > > Note: many time varying file formats produce the data time for you so this > translation is unnecessary and the Annotate Time filter will do what you > want it to. > > > > > David E DeMarle > Kitware, Inc. > R&D Engineer > 21 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > Phone: 518-881-4909 > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Phil Amburn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Sean, >> >> >> >> Can we talk? I’m not smart enough to understand your suggestion (hate it >> when that happens). >> >> >> >> If I get something worked out, even a hack, I’ll post the solution back >> to this list. >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> *From:* ParaView [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of * >> [email protected] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 3:41 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> >> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] displaying simulation time rather >> than time step >> >> >> >> Hey Phil, >> You *might* be able to hack it with a combination of a Programmable >> Filter and a Python Annotation Filter. Use the Programmable Filter to add >> a FieldData value to each time step that is a string with the appropriate >> date. Then use the Python Annotation Filter to display the date as an >> annotation. >> >> The first part is the hard one. The Programmable Filter could either (1) >> read the file once to get all the dates, or (2) compute the dates using the >> starting date, the time step value, and Python's datetime module. >> >> Thanks, >> Sean >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* ParaView [[email protected]] on behalf of Scott, W >> Alan [[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 5:17 PM >> *To:* Phil Amburn; [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] displaying simulation time rather >> than time step >> >> Phil, >> >> I have no idea how to put out what you are asking for, but it is a really >> good idea. If you don’t get an answer, be sure to write up a bug report/ >> feature request. >> >> >> >> Alan >> >> >> >> *From:* ParaView [mailto:[email protected] >> <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Phil Amburn >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 3:26 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] displaying simulation time rather than >> time step >> >> >> >> I would like to do something similar to the Annotate Time filter, but >> rather than displaying the time step number, I need to display simulation >> date and time. >> >> >> >> I have a text file with the actual simulation date and time associated >> with each time step. Here are the first few lines of that file >> >> >> >> Time step Time step output, Actual time >> >> 0 0.00, 4/1/2013 15:00 >> >> 1 65.83, 4/1/2013 15:01 >> >> 2 125.88, 4/1/2013 15:02 >> >> 3 201.00, 4/1/2013 15:03 >> >> 4 268.65, 4/1/2013 15:04 >> >> 5 328.83, 4/1/2013 15:05 >> >> 6 366.46, 4/1/2013 15:06 >> >> >> >> … >> >> >> >> So, rather than Time: 0 at the bottom of the 3D window, I’d like to have >> 4/1/2013 15:00 >> >> >> >> Any thoughts / recommendations on how to accomplish this task will be >> greatly appreciated. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >
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