On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Manav Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:

> --  For some reason, Paraview does not understand the temporal character
> of the file names (a_1.e, a_2.e, a_3.e,…., a_n.e being the n time step
> values). Once I read all of them into Paraview, incrementing the time in
> its GUI does not change anything in the visualization. So, I have to
> manually select a file (a_3.e, for example) to see the output from that
> time step.  Any suggestions here?
>

With Exodus you don't write a file per timestep... as long as the mesh
doesn't change you just keep calling write_timestep() and it keeps adding
to the same file.  Personally this is really convenient... instead of
ending up with thousands of output files for a transient simulation... you
just have _one_.

If your mesh does change you need to start writing a new Exodus file.  In
that case, Paraview expects the files to be named like so:

some_name.e
some_name.e-s002
some_name.e-s003
some_name.e-s004

Each one of those files might contain multiple timesteps in it.

Derek
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