Hi Giuseppe, Your patch for ParaView that sets the block name to the name attribute in the PVD file has just been merged to the master branch.
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/454 Thank you for contributing to ParaView! Best regards, Cory On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta <[email protected] > wrote: > Hello all, > > I have the following situation: I have multiple dataset created by the > same simulation, evolving in time. I'm currently presented wit two > options to preserve time information: > > Option 1: I create a pvd in the form: > > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <VTKFile type='Collection' version='0.1'> > <Collection> > <DataSet timestep='0' part='1' name='Planes' file='PLANES.vtu'/> > <DataSet timestep='0' part='2' name='WaveGages' file='WaveGage_00000.vtu'/> > <DataSet timestep='0' part='3' name='Particles' file='PART_00000.vtu'/> > <DataSet timestep='0.00049' part='1' name='Planes' file='PLANES.vtu'/> > <DataSet timestep='0.00049' part='2' name='WaveGages' > file='WaveGage_00001.vtu'/> > <DataSet timestep='0.00049' part='3' name='Particles' > file='PART_00001.vtu'/> > <!-- etc for the other timesteps --> > </Collection> > </VTKFile> > > which is efficient (single index file) but annoying UI-wise (since the > names of the data sets are not used in the muti-block inspector or in > the extract block filter) > > Option 2: I have the pvd point, for each timestep, to a single .vtm > file which in turns points to the multiple vtu files for that > timestep: so the pvd is like > > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <VTKFile type='Collection' version='0.1'> > <Collection> > <DataSet timestep='0' group='' part='0' file='data_00000.vtm'/> > <DataSet timestep='0.00049' group='' part='0' file='data_00001.vtm'/> > </Collection> > </VTKFile> > > and each vtm is like: > > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <VTKFile type='vtkMultiBlockDataSet' version='1.0'> > <vtkMultiBlockDataSet> > <DataSet index='0' name='Planes' file='PLANES.vtu'/> > <DataSet index='1' name='WaveGages' file='WaveGage_00000.vtu'/> > <DataSet index='2' name='Particles' file='PART_00000.vtu'/> > </vtkMultiBlockDataSet> > </VTKFile> > > This has the advantage that the name of each dataset appears in the > block extraction tool, but the disadvantage that I have to create one > additional file per timestep (which may be a LOT of extra files) > > I've also tried Option 3: a pvd pointing to one pvd per block, and > each pvd having the time series for that block, but this simply > segfaults paraview. > > So my question is: is there a way to combine the compactness offered > Option 1 with the possibility to see the block names in the UI offered > by Option 2? I've also tried to play around with the group option in > the pvd dataset entries, to no effect (and I'm still not clear on the > difference between group and part, so any clarification on this is > also welcome). > > Thanks in advance and best regards, > > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > -- Cory Quammen R&D Engineer Kitware, Inc.
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