[Paraview] Writing a TecPlot reader

[Nachiket Gokhale]

On 4/6/07, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Nachiket,
>
> A Tecplot reader would be a very useful addition to ParaView. However,
> I have to warn you that the Tecplot format is very rich in features
> and writing a reader that supports all of it would be quite a bit of
> work.

I found the following documentation on the web and I have to say that
you are right.

ftp://ftp.tecplot.com/pub/doc/tecplot/360/dataformat.pdf


>Maybe we should start putting together whatever we have and
> continue on improving it with time.

I don't have anything coded up now, and was looking to get started slowly.

Thanks,

 -Nachiket


John, I know you guys have at
> least a few different versions. Is there anything that could be put in
> VTK without too much effort?
>
> I would also like to see a CGNS reader in VTK/ParaView...
>
> -berk
>
>
> On 4/6/07, Nachiket Gokhale <gokhalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > IIt seems that VTK/Paraview does not have to ability to read TecPlot ASCII
> > files directly -- perhaps it is because the TecPlot format is not well
> > documented. It seems to me that reading TecPlot ASCII files would be a
> > useful feature to have in VTK/Paraview and I've been thinking of creating a
> > patch to do this. Do let me know if such a patch would be useful.
> >
> > Any pointers on how to do this, file formats etc would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >  -Nachiket
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