Has anyone any experience of animation of multi block time domain data in Tecplot 10 ? I have a 10 block finite volume code that outputs data to result files every 100 timesteps. Looking at the Tecplot demo for a single block domain it seems that each timestep is assigned it's own zone within the results file for that block and that the animation process is simply a case of reading the data for each zone. Very easy for a single block.

However I have tried animation of my multiblock results files and find find rather than displaying an animation of the entire domain Tecplot instead displays a time animation of each block by itself and then moves on to the next block.

I am thinking that I must be able to do this in Tecplot, but perhaps my file format is incorrect.

Thank you,

Simon.

try to use export->avi format.

You can export a frame to avi movie format.

If you are familiar to using MACRO, you can make animation for that multi-block data.

Hi Simon,

I also use small macros. Fast and efficient. If you are not familiar with, try to record one, and then modify it as you want.

Regards

Try to output your data of each block as a zone, then control by MACRO, the following is a simple example. Good luck!

#!MC 700 ##This macro is to animate zones once for more than one $!EXPORTSETUP EXPORTFORMAT = AVI EXPORTFNAME = "d:/upload/ANI.AVI"

$!VARSET |NUMZ| = |NUMZONES| $!VARSET |NUMZ| -= 1 $!VARSET |NUMZ| /= 2 $!VARSET |ZONE1| = 1 $!VARSET |ZONE2| = 2 $!VARSET |ZONE3| = |ZONE2| $!VARSET |ZONE3|+= |NUMZ| $!LOOP |NUMZ| ## Change the active zone. ## The |Loop| variable is equal to the current ## loop cycle number. $!ACTIVEFIELDZONES = [|ZONE1|, |ZONE2|,|ZONE3|] $!REDRAWALL $!VARSET |ZONE2| += 1 $!VARSET |ZONE3| += 1 $!IF |Loop| == 1 $!EXPORT APPEND = NO $!ENDIF $!IF |Loop| != 1 $!EXPORT APPEND = YES $!ENDIF $!ENDLOOP

Sorry, the board can keep the format of macro, you can find it manuals of tecplot, maybe it should be user guide, I am not sure