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Commit c24e3ab6 authored by Christophe Geuzaine's avatar Christophe Geuzaine
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add FAQ entry on multi-time-step views
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$Id: FAQ,v 1.55 2005-03-12 22:25:24 geuzaine Exp $ $Id: FAQ,v 1.56 2005-03-23 16:53:44 geuzaine Exp $
This is the Gmsh FAQ This is the Gmsh FAQ
...@@ -366,3 +366,28 @@ There can be several reasons: ...@@ -366,3 +366,28 @@ There can be several reasons:
In any case, you can automatically remove all empty views with In any case, you can automatically remove all empty views with
'View->Remove->Empty Views' in the GUI, or with "Delete Empty Views;" 'View->Remove->Empty Views' in the GUI, or with "Delete Empty Views;"
in a script. in a script.
* 7.13 My code generates data "time step by time step", and thus
cannot easily output Gmsh's multi-time-step post-processing files,
where the values for all the time steps are given per element. How can
I use Gmsh's post-processor in this situation?
Just create one view for each time step: Gmsh can handle an arbitrary
number of views and it can deal with these separate views as
efficiently as with a single multi-time-step view. The only
disadvantage is that the total amount of disk space used is greater
(since the node data is repeated for each time step).
In practice, depending on the size of the data set, you may want to
store all the views in a single file or create one separate file for
each view, which you can then load selectively (and thus reduce the
memory required for the analysis). In any case you can use
'Tools->Options->Post-processing->View links' to apply options to
multiple views at once, and the up and down arrow keys to loop through
(animate) the views (instead of the left and right arrow keys for
multi-time-step views).
Also note that if all the views are based on the same grid, Gmsh can
combine the separate views into a multi-time-step view by using the
'View->Combine->Time Steps' menu, or by using the '-combine' command
line option.
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