[OpenFOAM] FoamToVTK Animation with Paraview 3

podallaire · October 5, 2007, 09:52

Good morning guys,

I've been using paraview 3 and paraview 2-6 for the last two weeks to check my OpenFOAM results. In order to visualize my results with Paraview 3 (paraFoam will not work), I used the foamToVTK converter (which works very well) and opened the VTK files with Paraview 3. The only thing is that I'm not able to get an animation in Paraview 3 with all my time steps. Any idea on how to do it ? All time steps where converted with foamToVTK.

Best regards,

PODallaire

gschaider · October 7, 2007, 15:27

Animations didn't work with 3.0 AFAIK. I don't know if 3.1 or 3.2 is the first version to support that

7islands · October 7, 2007, 19:00

Hi Pierre-Olivier,
There's an entry on ParaView Wiki.
http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_l...TK_file_series
Looking around the source tree it seems the latest CVS seems to have this feature built-in (I haven't tested it myself though)

Takuya

podallaire · October 8, 2007, 07:47

Bernhard and Takuya,

thanks for messages. I'll take a look on the paraview wiki
as suggested by Takua.

PO

podallaire · October 9, 2007, 00:26

Hi,

as mentionned on the wiki, Paraview as a "multi-file" reader
for VTK legacy files. I tried it but even if it looks that it is opening
a group of files, it seems that only one random file will open.
Did you try it Takuya ?

Thanks

PO

7islands · October 9, 2007, 07:26

Hi,
Yes it worked with today's CVS version. Note that you need to select group name on the right of disclosure mark (the blue highlighted "blow..vtk" in the Wiki case), not individual timestep files.

Takuya

October 5, 2007, 09:52	FoamToVTK Animation with Paraview 3	#1
podallaire Senior Member Pierre-Olivier Dallaire Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Posts: 192 Rep Power: 17	Good morning guys, I've been using paraview 3 and paraview 2-6 for the last two weeks to check my OpenFOAM results. In order to visualize my results with Paraview 3 (paraFoam will not work), I used the foamToVTK converter (which works very well) and opened the VTK files with Paraview 3. The only thing is that I'm not able to get an animation in Paraview 3 with all my time steps. Any idea on how to do it ? All time steps where converted with foamToVTK. Best regards, PODallaire

October 7, 2007, 15:27	Animations didn't work with 3.	#2
gschaider Assistant Moderator Bernhard Gschaider Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,225 Rep Power: 51	Animations didn't work with 3.0 AFAIK. I don't know if 3.1 or 3.2 is the first version to support that __________________ Note: I don't use "Friend"-feature on this forum out of principle. Ah. And by the way: I'm not on Facebook either. So don't be offended if I don't accept your invitation/friend request

October 7, 2007, 19:00	Hi Pierre-Olivier, There's an	#3
7islands Super Moderator Takuya OSHIMA Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Niigata City, Japan Posts: 518 Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 20	Hi Pierre-Olivier, There's an entry on ParaView Wiki. http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_l...TK_file_series Looking around the source tree it seems the latest CVS seems to have this feature built-in (I haven't tested it myself though) Takuya

October 8, 2007, 07:47	Bernhard and Takuya, thanks	#4
podallaire Senior Member Pierre-Olivier Dallaire Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Posts: 192 Rep Power: 17	Bernhard and Takuya, thanks for messages. I'll take a look on the paraview wiki as suggested by Takua. PO

October 9, 2007, 00:26	Hi, as mentionned on the wi	#5
podallaire Senior Member Pierre-Olivier Dallaire Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Posts: 192 Rep Power: 17	Hi, as mentionned on the wiki, Paraview as a "multi-file" reader for VTK legacy files. I tried it but even if it looks that it is opening a group of files, it seems that only one random file will open. Did you try it Takuya ? Thanks PO

October 9, 2007, 07:26	Hi, Yes it worked with today'	#6
7islands Super Moderator Takuya OSHIMA Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Niigata City, Japan Posts: 518 Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 20	Hi, Yes it worked with today's CVS version. Note that you need to select group name on the right of disclosure mark (the blue highlighted "blow..vtk" in the Wiki case), not individual timestep files. Takuya

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