On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 16:24, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jed just added some VTK output that has appended binary data. I plan to >> add the strategy we use in >> PyLith which is to write an HDF5 file, and then an xdmf file to describe >> that layout to VTK. >> > > You can -snes_view_solution_vtk foo.vts or -ts_monitor_solution_vtk > foo-%03d.vts to get binary output for anything that was based on a DA. > Notes: > > 1. If you set field names with DMDASetFieldName(), those will be present in > the VTK file (hence your GUI of choice). > > 2. If you name Vecs differently, you can view multiple Vecs to the same > file provided they are associated with a DMDA. The variable name will > include the Vec name. > > 3. Time series can't go in the same file because VTK is a lame format. > You can however point the xdmf to an HDF5 file with multiple timesteps. Matt > 4. You can't view multiple Vecs on _different_ DAs because VTK is a lame > format. > > 5. DMComposite can't go in the same file because VTK is a lame format. (It > could go to different files, but I haven't written support for this.) > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20111016/299c3079/attachment.html>
