Paraview: plotting groups of qsL

[Chiara]

Hello,

in my input file, a geometry of quad elements is imported from a file:

QuadFaceList CONT Geometry {
ReadFile ...
Plotting disabled
}

Then various groups of quadshellLists are created selecting elements from the quadfacelist, to assign different material properties to each group:

QuadFaceList CONT {
Select for ...
}
QuadShellList CONT1 QphShell {
QphShell
%material properities ...
ImportSelectedQuadFacesFrom CONT
}

For the paraview output, each quadshellList should be individually plotted :
PlotList PVW Paraview {
DeleteAllFiles
dt ...
qsL CONT1 { }
qsL CONT2 { }
qsL CONT3 { }
qsL ...
}

Having a high number of different quadshellLists (almost 7000 in my case), though, the number of files generated during the simulation is almost unmanageable, so I was wondering if it could be possible to gather together all the quadshellLists in a single, global one, for example qsL CONT_TOT= qsL CONT1+ qsL CONT2+ qsL CONT3..., so that only a single plot file per time step would be printed.
Thank you for any help,
Chiara

[ES3]

A new keyword is version [2015.0.60] for this purpose:

Code: Select all

PlotList PVW  Paraview {
  CombineListsToSingleFile
  DeleteAllFiles
  dt 0.0005 ms
  qsL CONT1 { }
  qsL CONT2 { }
  qsL CONT3 { }
  qsL CONT4 { }
}


Notice: with 'CombineListsToSingleFile" keyword, all the lists should plot the same attributes (force, state variables, etc).