[Paraview] Input text

[Gerald Labedz]

Good idea, I'll use paraView to create that legacy format.
Gerry



On 3/22/07 3:43 PM, "Kevin H. Hobbs" <hobbsk at ohiou.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 15:22 -0500, Gerald Labedz wrote:
> 
>>   I never got as far as comma separated values in ParaView -- that didn't
>> show up as an option. I tried some different readers as dumb potshots, but
>> all I got was those backtraces and an exit. That's why I was wondering if
>> the darwin (unix/Mac OS X) version is different. I know csv is prevalent on
>> Windows, but I thought all this stuff was cross-platform.
> 
> It is cross platform. I get the same backtrace in linux.
> 
>>   Anyway I'm still flabberghasted that a simple text read is causing me this
>> much pain. 
> 
> There is no such thing as a simple text file. You want a multi column
> text file loaded as points. Somebody else will want a text file to
> represent an image, another person will want unstructured grids. The
> number of possibilities are just mind blowing.
> 
>> It sure looks like the legacy .vtk ought to work,
> 
> Only if you convert your data to this format. Try to create a small
> pointset in paraview and save it in legacy vtk ascii format and take a
> look at the file.
> 
>> so why I got a
>> backtrace and exit from that I don't know. I could be doing that wrong.
>>   thanks for your help.
>> Gerry Labedz
>> 
>