[Paraview] Paraview first look - HELP!

[rnelias at nacad.ufrj.br]

Renan, first of all you must try to understand which kind of data you have. Is
it a structured or unstructured grid (or something else)? I think that you
could represent the surface of a river by giving a regular grid in XY plane and
a set of elevations (z coordinates) OR, maybe, you might have a triangulated
surface (less probable). After figuring it out, you can pick and learn one of
the several file formats that ParaView supports
(http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:FAQ#What_file_formats_does_ParaView_support.3F)
in order to translate your data accordingly (it's not hard and I'm sure that
you'd be able to do it in less than a week ;o).

I hope it helps you

Renato.

Quoting Renan Leser <leser21 at gmail.com>:

> Hello!
>
> I'm new around here, my name is Renan Leser de Medeiros, I'm a student from
> UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. I'm taking the Masters
> Course on Civil Engineering, with emphasys on Scientific Visualization.
>
> So, my "boss" here asked me to learn and to produce results with Paraview,
> on a week!
>
> I'm really desperate, because I'm working with rivers databases, with .DAT
> extensions, but I can't get it working in Paraview.
>
> Paraview do'nt open .DAT files, so I tryed to import using RAW (binary
> files). But then, when I press aplly on the "parameters" bars, I can't see
> the visualization. There's no geometry!
>
> Can anybody help me?
>