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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I personally favor the use of XDMF to import raw binary data. This gives the flexibility to import cell-data and/or node-data<br>
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the XDMF code most likely to work for your example is the following:<br>
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Given your binary data stored in file "rawdata.bin", double-length floating point, with 4x4x5 cells, i.e. a grid of 5x5x6 vertices...<br>
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<?xml version="1.0" ?><br>
<!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []><br>
<Xdmf xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" Version="2.2"><br>
  <Domain><br>
    <Grid Name="3DMesh" GridType="Uniform"><br>
      <Topology TopologyType="3DCORECTMESH" Dimensions="6 5 5"/><br>
      <Geometry GeometryType="ORIGIN_DXDYDZ"><br>
         <DataItem Name="Origin" NumberType="Float" Dimensions="3" Format="XML">0. 0. 0.</DataItem><br>
         <DataItem Name="Spacing" NumberType="Float" Dimensions="3" Format="XML">1. 1. 1.</DataItem><br>
      </Geometry><br>
      <Attribute Name="Temperature" Active="1" AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Cell"><br>
          <DataItem Dimensions="5 4 4" NumberType="Float" Precision="8" Format="Binary">rawdata.bin</DataItem><br>
      </Attribute><br>
    </Grid><br>
  </Domain><br>
</Xdmf><br>
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Jean<br>
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