Opening a time series with multiple files per time-points.

ParaView Support
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Hello all,

I have several objects stored as meshes in a PLY files. The multiple PLY files corresponds each to one object followed over several time-points.

In the docs I found out how to open a group of files as a time-series, by naming the files e.g. foo01.ply, foo02.ply, etc

I would like to “tell” paraview that I have several files per time-point. For instance
objA-t01.ply
objA-t02.ply
objA-t03.ply
objB-t01.ply
objB-t02.ply

and of course I wish the objects A and B to be present simultaneously at each time-point they are in.

Is there a way to achieve this in paraview? Maybe a meta file that would specify how to open the data? Or another file format?

Thanks

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I’m afraid you wont be able to combine .ply automatically like that. You can do that manually in ParaView using GroupDataSets though.