I am unable to open a collection of dump files obtained from LAMMPS as a file series.
The data is probably loaded into paraview (i see dump* in the pipeline).
However, I cannot see the animation (in ‘Time Manager’)
Just to confirm if the issue is with .dump files only or not, I have created some fabricated data and saved it as .csv files. I can open them as file series, and play the animation in ‘Time Manager’.
I am attaching the relevant .dump and .csv files here.
The .csv data may be loaded as: open file series → Add Filter ‘Table to Points’ → Add Filter ‘Glyph’ (settings: Sphere, select x,y,z column, and radius column as Scalars).
I think, my issue is perhaps similar to this one: Cannot open fileseries in ParaView 5.4.1
which does not have any discussion below the question posted by the user.
I am using LAMMPS Dump Files (*.dump) reader (pl. see attached image).
I would like to add the following new information that I have learnt:
There are two ways to generate LAMMPS dump files during simulations:
a. Entire data over multiple time steps written to one big dump file.
b. A separate dump file generated for every Nth time step.
I have tried loading the data using one big dumpfile (file attached). Paraview is able to load the data and run the animation flawlessly.
However, for my work, I would like to have separate dumpfiles for each Nth step, since each of these separate files is large. A combined file would be too big.
