Cumulative time step geometry

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Hi,

I am trying to visualize some results with geometries in each time step.

The data I import has geometry files separate for the time steps, however I want the geometries to display cumulatively eg. when viewing time step 5, the geometries from steps 1-4 remain visible. Is this possible with an existing filter?

Thanks,
Simon

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GroupTimeSteps should do the trick

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Thanks for the reply Mathieu,

GroupTimeSteps only allows me to group all the time steps and view them as a single object,

I have 41 steps in this case and want to be able to move between them showing just steps previous to the one I have selected.

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GroupTimeSteps create a multiblock datastructure that lets you hide/show any block correspoonding to your timesteps.

Use the View/MultiBlockInspector for that.

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Thanks! wondered if I was missing something there…

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An alternate option to the multiblock inspector is to use the Extract Time Steps filter before the Group Time Steps filter. The multiblock inspector option that @mwestphal gave is certainly the easier approach, but Extract Time Steps can be automated. It’s a little tricky, but if you wanted to, for example, animate a group of 4 time steps over the time range, you could animate the Extract Time Steps options with the Animation View.

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