[Paraview] paraview: uploading data files

[Michael Jackson]

You will probably have to write some sort of custom reader for your  
data. This can be just a simple stand-alone program that converts your  
data into the .pvd file or you can make the reader a ParaView plugin  
so that ParaView can open your data file(s).

The first thing you will probably want to do is export the data from  
excel into a CSV file for easier reading.

Next you can write the code for your reader. If you can give some more  
information about what exactly the data in the xls files represents  
the community may be able to guide you further. For example is the  
data xyz coordinates for a triangular mesh? Is it voxel data? Is it  
image data?

There are lots of examples for all of those around the net and from  
various folks on the list (including myself).

Cheers
_________________________________________________________
Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio



On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Jamie Ruprecht wrote:

>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am also new to this forum and new to paraview and python coding.
>
> I am currently looking to create an animation of shallow water waves  
> using paraview, but I am having some trouble uploading my data files.
> At this stage, my data files are in excel files (.xls) and I am just  
> wondering how I should go about converting them to paraview data  
> files (.pvd) or the like, so that I may create an animation.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Jamie.
>
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