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When exporting to vtk from GiD postprocessing, vtu files are written correctly for each time-step but the time information is lost.

Since these files are normally read by Paraview, would it be possible to also add a ParaView Data file (.pvd)? This file establishes a correspondence between other files and current time. It looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1">
<Collection>
<DataSet timestep="0.5" group="" part="0" file="2cubes_0.pvtu"/>
<DataSet timestep="1" group="" part="1" file="2cubes_1.pvtu"/>
</Collection>
</VTKFile>

Vtk doesn't has any field to store the time step, then usually programs are codifying the time step as a suffix in the collection of filenames.

We will study your suggestion of write an extra .pvd file, at least for Paraview use, thanks

We have implemented this feature of write/read the .pvd file to store the time steps

To update your vtk import/export plugin simply unzip this attached file inside the folder
<GiD>\plugins\Import
replacing the current files.
Note: the plugin is pure-tcl, it is valid for all GiD versions and platforms

Thank you for your reply and implementation,

I tried the export part of the feature today for the first time with this dataset: https://we.tl/t-iLlkvAN5GU (post.res file, ~400kb)
I get an empty warning window, a message "Problems writing" in the CL and nothing happens.

Could you try replicating this problem please?

The link with your .post.res file has expired.
please, upload the attachment directly in this forum (do a .zip to be able to upload)