[CIG-LONG] Paraview and VTK installation assistance needed

[Walter Landry]

stephanie tsang <dorist84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Stephanie and I am currently a 4th year undergraduate
> student attempting to get accquatinted with GALE. I've downloaded
> Paraview 3.2.1, VTK for Windows, as well as Python and am able to
> run GALE from the command prompt. My problem comes with output files
> - I am able to run the yielding.xml for GALE in the command prompt,
> but I am not sure where all the output files are downloaded to. Some
> seemed to have been saved in the output.template, however, when I
> attempt to navigate to these files to visualize them in Paraview, I
> am unable to locate them. I am only able to locate for instance
> pressure.0.00000.vts but not the needed pressure.0.00001.vts (which
> according to the user manual is the 10th time step for the
> yielding.xml file).

The output files should all be in the directory output.template.  It
sounds like the program may not have completed.  What is the output
when you run yielding.xml?  You should get something like

TimeStep = 1, Start time = 0 + 0 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 2, Start time = 0 + 0.0107639 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 3, Start time = 0.0107639 + 0.0107105 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 4, Start time = 0.0214744 + 0.0106587 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 5, Start time = 0.0321332 + 0.0106059 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 6, Start time = 0.0427391 + 0.0105527 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 7, Start time = 0.0532918 + 0.0104996 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 8, Start time = 0.0637914 + 0.0104465 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 9, Start time = 0.0742378 + 0.0103941 prev timeStep dt
TimeStep = 10, Start time = 0.0846319 + 0.0103424 prev timeStep dt

If you see that, then the output files for other time steps
(e.g. fields.0.00010.vts) should be in output.template.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org