[vtkusers] whoever did have experience in reading PLOT3D data into VTK?

Prabhu Ramachandran prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in
Wed Apr 24 23:13:51 EDT 2002


>>>>> "YR" == you ruobo <you_ruobo at yahoo.com> writes:

    YR> I am trying to input my CFD mesh into VTK. The data is in
    YR> PLOT3D format and it's unformatted. But vtkPLOT3Dreader cannot
    YR> read my file correctly. I am suffering from it. May you help
    YR> me and point out the reason?

vtkPLOT3DReader works only with structured grids and binary data.
BTW, if you are generating the data yourself and using VTK I'd
recommend the VTK data format.  Its documented here:

http://public.kitware.com/VTK/pdf/file-formats.pdf

and easy to use and supports all CFD related meshes.

prabhu



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