Hi Giordano, You can use a .pvd file to assign time values to different files in the way you want. Please see
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats#PVD_File_Format HTH, Cory On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Giordano Lipari < giordano_lip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all! I am reposting this after several days since I fear that the > first take was swamped in a dense digest. Hope this is OK. > > I work with Paraview 4.3.1. I use an existing state file (*.pvsm) as a > template to create a new animation (with four panels combined). > > The names of the legacy vtk files that I am loading as frames, are > tailed by a progressive file counter (such as *.0001.vtk, *.0002.vtk and > so forth). At this stage I am not able/inclined to change this situation. > > The time annotation in the animation shows the 0-based file counter, > whereas I would like to show the time values out of a given sequence. > > I then thought that editing the property field "TimestepValues" in the > state file from > <Property name="TimestepValues" id="4553.TimestepValues" > number_of_elements="6"> > <Element index="0" value="0"/> > <Element index="1" value="1"/> > <Element index="2" value="2"/> > <Element index="3" value="3"/> > <Element index="4" value="4"/> > <Element index="5" value="5"/> > </Property> > into, for example, > <Property name="TimestepValues" id="4555.TimestepValues" > number_of_elements="6"> > <Element index="0" value="0"/> > <Element index="1" value="0.6"/> > <Element index="2" value="1.25"/> > <Element index="3" value="1.85"/> > <Element index="4" value="2.5"/> > <Element index="5" value="3.1"/> > </Property> > would have worked well. (I repeat this for all occurrences of > TimestepValues owing to the four-panel arrangement.) > > However, this is not sufficient. The new values are ignored and even > overwritten when I save the modified state file. > > --1-- > Is there any other feature in the pvsm file that I should tweak to make > this substitution effective? > --2-- > Or is this idea ill-fated from the outset? > --3-- > If 2==true is the case, is there any recommended way such that the time > annotation marks a user-defined sequence of values? > > Thanks for thinking along and helping me out with tips and wisdom. > > Giordano > _______________________________________________ > 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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